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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
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Date: 20 Jan 1996 05:53:20 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote:
: David Bellamy <bellamy@commerce.uq.edu.au> wrote:
: ] > >It can take a week to get a machine to simply recognize two SCSI
: ] > >controllers. Nobody expects you to put two into a machine, so nobody
: ] > >tells you the convolutions needed to do so.
: ] >
: ] > You'll have the same problem with PC unices as you do with SUN/DEC/SGI
: ] > workstations. How do I stick one in my Sparc 10, I've avoided doing it
: ] > simply because it's a pain? (BTW - I know how, it's almost *exactly*
: ] > the same procedure as doing it under any of the BSD's)
: ]
: ]
: ] That must be something peculiar to BSD (SunOS 4.x ??). Under SunOS 5.4,
: ]
: ] touch /reconfigure
: ] power down and install new SCSI-2 card
: ] boot
: ] There it is.
: I think Nate's comment was regarding the ability of the card
: to subsequently operate reliably.
: [ ... ]
: ] > Software support isn't perfect on *ANY* OS
: ] > you choose, but if you stick with the standard OS's already discussed
: ] > you'll be pretty safe.
: ]
: ] You'd probably also want to pick one that is being actively developed
: ] and enhanced - all this WWW stuff is introducing stresses and demands on
: ] an OS that no one could have dreamed of. BSD derived systems are pretty
: ] well dead (yes I'm sure there is an exception, somewhere) but most
: ] mainstream suppliers now are using SVR4 derived systems.
: The exception you are thinking of is probably freefall.cdrom.com,
: arguably the most active site on the net.
: It is a FreeBSD system.
: FreeBSD is being actively developed and enhanced.
Give him a better list:
NetBSD
FreeBSD
BSDI BSD/OS as commercial as you can get
falling through the cracks:
OSF/1
And then there is the Taiwanese source licensee of SunOS 4.1.3 who is
probably just waiting for Sun to get out of the BSD business.
--
Rick Kelly rmk@tencats.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
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