[geeks] RedHat restructure

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:29:50PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> 
> > This isn't Slackware's fault: new libraries and dependencies have been
> > growing like mad for the last couple of years.  User's demand that
> > stuff, and so it went in.
> 
> Funny how OpenBSD and NetBSD can fit several architectures' installers
> on a single CD, with source.  But that boils down to the issue of "What
> is $OS" and "What is the software the maintainers support on $OS".

Having common applications bundled is rather nice for people who have to
do their downloading at work or a friends house though.

> I have seven computing architectures in my house that I actually use.
> Three (PowerMac, RS/6000, and SGI) of those architectures will never
> run BSD in my house, but the rest either run BSD or the vendor's OS.
> Having one CD versus 15 or so is important to me because I can't always
> netboot.

Why not consider NetBSD on Powermacs, RS/6000, or SGI?  I would imagine
that it would be quite usefull on older non-MacOS X powermacs, older
non-POWER RS/6000s, and some SGIs (isn't it supposed to fully support
everything common for Indys except XZ graphics, and in Indigo2s,
anything that it already has an ISA driver for or is on board?).

I'm tempted to put NetBSD on the Indy I just got, but I'm holding off on
considering such a rash decision until I see how well the KVM coming
works (if it won't work with the Indy, the Indy will be used headlessly,
so I might as well consider NetBSD or Linux).