On Wed, 2007-01-31 22:56:03 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:13:12PM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-01-30 21:23:34 +0100, Diego Calleja <[email protected]> wrote: > > > El Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:31:01 +0100 (MET), Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> escribió: > > > > Don't they claim 50+? Already browsing > > > > ftp://ftp.de.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.1 gives more than 2 > > > > screenfuls [à 25]. > > > > > > Sure, Linux doesn't support vax and the like, but it does support lots of > > > architectures that matter. In http://netbsd.org/Ports/#ports-by-cpu there's a > > > > Well, there *is* a 2.6.x based VAX port, though it needs some updates > > to incorporate the last few months of upstream development. But NetBSD > > still does better hardware support. > > a few years ago, I installed NetBSD 1.6 on my VLC4000. It hanged every now > and then (several times a month). I finally tried OpenBSD 3.1 and it never > hanged nor crashed since. It's been running 3.7 fine from its release till > now. I don't know if NetBSD's VAX support has stabilized now, but I thought > it might be of interest to you to be aware that at least another OS runs > fine on this hardware. Already knew that :) There isn't much traffic on the VAX related development lists (neither for *BSD not for Linux), but things are slowly progressing. These days, we try to work together (eg. we wrote a graphics driver or two together, after we disassembled the machine's ROMs.) So unfortunately the userbase is small, but we perfectly work together. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw [email protected] +49-172-7608481 Signature of: The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the second : the language just sucks. -- Linus Torvalds
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