[geeks] Whoo hoo... now this is a nice Linux

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Bryan Fullerton wrote:

> Sounds like NetBSD - fun as a challenge to get a stripped-down OS into
> a usable state, but who actually uses it? (besides people running
> platforms that no other free *NIX supports ;)

Uhm, NetBSD has a really simple[0] installer for the base OS, compilers,
and X, and it has pkgsrc for everything else.  As long as your hardware
is supported, where's the challenge?

The biggest challenge I run into these days is netbooting IRIX from
anything other than an IRIX server.  IRIX has about the most back-asswards
installer I've ever used.  It's a good thing that the rest of the OS makes
up for it. ;)


[0] Partitioning a disk for a dual-boot situation can be "fun", but
    everything else is cake.
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