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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!agate!theos.com!deraadt From: deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 25 Jan 1997 00:00:05 GMT Organization: Theo Ports Kernels For Fun And Profit Lines: 29 Message-ID: <DERAADT.97Jan24170005@zeus.theos.com> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <m2915kj5x2.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <5c983p$fnc@cynic.portal.ca> <slrn4gcgtq.72h.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <5cb68v$jqc@cynic.portal.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.theos.com In-reply-to: cjs@cynic.portal.ca's message of 24 Jan 1997 12:32:31 -0800 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:154153 comp.os.linux.networking:66119 comp.os.linux.setup:93842 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:5731 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2024 In article <5cb68v$jqc@cynic.portal.ca> cjs@cynic.portal.ca (Curt Sampson) writes: In article <slrn4gcgtq.72h.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar>, Roberto Alsina <ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> wrote: > >But Linux runs on more hardware than FreeBSD or OpenBSD, so it's on the >upper half of BSD's in that respect. I suppose it depends on how you define `hardware.' If you're speaking of platforms, however, OpenBSD runs on most, possibly all, the platforms that NetBSD runs on. It supports a few more, according to a rather loose definition. But it loses support for a few older ones which we don't have developers or users of. Noone has a pc532, and none of us have ever seen an atari capable of running unix. All the ones I've seen had 6502's in them, anyways ;-) In particular, the PowerPC code has a fully-native compiling snapshot out (it runs on Motorola hardware, not on Mac's yet -- sorry). The ARC port supports a variety of MIPS R4xxx machines that people used to run NT. All existing and working ports have some extension or other. There's also apparently some companies now using OpenBSD as the basis for doing ports to their own embedded systems (like, 3 so far). These are ports which might never be useful to most people, but it's nice to be dealing with `industry'... -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@theos.com www.OpenBSD.org -- We're fixing security problems so you can sleep at night.