[plug] Linux on an Alpha?

[Darrell Horrocks]

Hi All

Anyone got a location where I can get information of the BSDs-v-Linux?  Is BSD
another (more or less) distribution with a different kernel(s)?

Can someone point me in the direction of some information regarding this,
particularly with regard to differences in hardware support, applications
supported etc?  I have been trying to do so using the *BSD pages, but finding it
hard to snorkel through ALL the information.

I ask this because I want to get linux working on a very old powermac, but was
told I would need to use netbsd.

Any other pointers?

Darrell

Peter Wright wrote:

<SNIP>

> It might be if they're an older model that they won't easily run
> linux... however, you might still be able to get either NetBSD or
> OpenBSD running on them.
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/
> http://www.openbsd.org/
>