[plug] Linux on an Alpha?

[Beau Kuiper]

Hi,

Thes BSD's are a more hardcore UNIX than linux. They are a completely different
operating systems to linux (they can use many of the same programs though).
BSD's (openBSD, freeBSD, netBSD) are operating system distributions that
contain a different kernel, libraries and programs to linux.

Some general points:

Good:
	* BSD's are typically faster than linux under extreme load. (But linux
	is catching up)
	* OpenBSD is accepted as the most secure UNIX around.
	* FreeBSD supports more latest hardware and components than the other
	BSD's
	* NetBSD runs on almost anything called a computer.
	* Linux programs are often trivially easy to port to BSD.
	* Often they can run linux programs without recomplation (YMMV)

Bad:
	* Hardware Support is not as complete as linux.
	* The command line tools are not quite as friendly as linux's.
	* BSD's are not as user oriented as linux, more hardcore oriented.
	* The disk partitioner during installation sucks rocks! Installation
	isn't too difficult once past that however.

Anyway, I don't know of any specific places to get information BSDs-v-Linux,
since nobody cares enough to do anything substatial.

Have fun
Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au


On Wed, 10 May 2000, Darrell Horrocks wrote:
> 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/
> >