On 7/6/06, Ian bell ianbell@ukfsn.org wrote:
However, for me, the core of Linux is seriously disparate - endless kernel revisions, each distro with its own patches, file layout, start up scripts, endless dependency issues and so on. So I was very pleased to find this is not the case with the various BSD flavours. In fact I have just installed NetBSD on an old PC. It has a single source code tree that compiles on 57 different platforms which says a lot about the quality of the code. Its pkgsrc app is what gentoo is modeled on apparently and there are over 5000 apps to choose from (nearly as many as Debian).
My first questions is: Does NetBSD on a PC have the level of hardware support as Linux?
I am seriously tempted to roll it out across my other PCs.
I guess you'll find out. Have fun!
Tim.