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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:476 comp.os.linux.misc:47118 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!athena From: athena@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Matteo Frigo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Linux/NetBSD for PPC, no flame please Date: 8 Jun 1995 21:47:36 GMT Organization: M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 24 Message-ID: <3r7r5o$qmh@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: heron.lcs.mit.edu There is a serious interest here at MIT in having a good OS for a PPC-based multiprocessor machine, currently running AIX, and for another PPC based with 8-256 processors experimental machine which will be built in the near future. We are considering to port one of the free available Unixen, in particular Linux or NetBSD. I'd like to know 1) what's the current status of ports of these operating systems (if any) to the PowerPC. 2) from a technical point of wiew, which are the relative merits of the two operating systems *from a portability point of view*. We are going to write our own device drivers and software anyway, so most of the issues (e.g. availability of doom/dosemu/X) don't matter. As long the OS runs gcc and emacs it's fine. Last time I looked around, NetBSD seemed more portable, but the situation may have been changed in the last months. Please reply by email and I'll summarize the answers. Thanks four your time Matteo Frigo athena@theory.lcs.mit.edu