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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!gmi!zombie.ncsc.mil!MathWorks.Com!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: DooM for NetBSD, will it become a reality Date: 29 Sep 1994 20:28:16 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 79 Message-ID: <36f810$3gj@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <36c2o6$jea@agate.berkeley.edu> <1994Sep29.000430.9809@umr.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <1994Sep29.000430.9809@umr.edu> dhickman@rocket.cc.umr.edu (David H Hickman ) writes: > >well i am not BIFF. But to tell you the truth it is so interestin how >people view their os as a religion. Right now I thing linux is the best >but to tell you the truth the instant something better comes out i will >put it on one of my machines. Especally if either Linux or bsd come out with >a FREE mach version. that is the major weakness of Linux is it is so damn >monolithic. But you do see versions of bsd floting around on alot of >machines.... Ah yes, a pulpit pounder in disquise... So what's the religion this week? My personal favorites are: First Church of UNIX The Church of Jesus Monroy of Latter Day UNIX The Roman Context-Switching Church Linux - The CHURCH of a GNU Generation Uhmm, guess I'm done.. >well i do run 132x80 in text mode. but i am rarelry in text mode unless X is screwed up > >So i usually run color Xterm which does all of the usual text wraping and stuff. > Text raping? What will you guys think of next? >ok i guess i am willing to give a honest look at bsd if it can meet these specs. >1. ext2fs support. Hmm, seems this is a "Invented in Linux land" filesystem, why expect *anything* to support this?? (except Linux) >2. fat file system support. MSDOSFS or PCFS is in there. So is FFS. (Fast File System) >3. how good is bsd iBCS2 emulation. It must be able to run WP5.1 and Corel Draw. Sounds to me like you should be using DOS/Windows if that's all you want to run. >4. X must be able to run 1152 900 resolution. ( anything lower sucks) Well vacuum boy, every heard of XFree86? Seems like it runs on *BSD and Linux, and, and, and... >5. GUS support. FreeBSD has this. >6. proven SLIP support. Yup, SLIP and PPP qre *quite* proven and stable on *BSD. >If there is a distrubution of BSD that supports this I will ftp it and try it out. >hell, as i said i will probally try it out on one of my machines. FreeBSD supports most of what you ask for. (except iBCS2) DOS/Windows supports *everything* you ask for. (except ext2fs whatever) Are you sure you're not really a DOS user in disquise? >*********************************************************************** >** " Why would you want to run UNIX when you can run RISC ... " ** >** - A South West Missouri CIS Graduate with a 4.0 ** >*********************************************************************** How about: "Switched hubs will eventually be replacing routers" (my boss?) -Andrew PS. Ok, Ok, I just couldn't help myself flaming just a little. -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================