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[News] OpenBSD ready for the PegasosANN.lu
Posted on 14-Oct-2003 10:53 GMT by Christian Kemp15 comments
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From Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck: OpenBSD has been successfully ported to the Pegasos by Dale Rahn. The Pegasos OpenBSD distro will be available for download later this month to all Pegasos owners.
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 1 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by DET Nicolas on 14-Oct-2003 09:04 GMT
:-)

Some people I know will be very happy.
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 2 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Matt Parsons on 14-Oct-2003 09:17 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (DET Nicolas):
Well you know, some of us are still waiting for the "big one"... ;)

Fingers crossed not long now... go michal!!!
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 3 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by opi on 14-Oct-2003 09:44 GMT
Well, yet-another good news. It 's sooo booooring. :-) Anyway, *BSD family is quite nice
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 4 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Carles "Doraemon" Bernardez on 14-Oct-2003 12:05 GMT
Good work :)
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 5 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by IamCleverOne on 14-Oct-2003 12:31 GMT
So will there is a BSD BOX for MorphOS?
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 6 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Anonymous on 14-Oct-2003 13:25 GMT
FreeBSD is the one we all want ;-)

well, its good news anyway!
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 7 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by VAn M. on 14-Oct-2003 14:09 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (IamCleverOne):
No it will be a partition-installable version of BSD
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 8 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by T_Bone on 14-Oct-2003 14:32 GMT
Obligatory slashdot troll...

'bsd is dying!'

...runs
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 9 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by bbrv on 14-Oct-2003 15:13 GMT
...come back! Maybe, you are right, but in the meanwhile they might try MorphOS and you never know what could happen then. The same thing goes for Pegasos Linux users. That is the whole idea.

:-)
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 10 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 14-Oct-2003 15:26 GMT
Hey, hallelujah. As I keep saying, this is the sort of thing that benefits users, developers, and the planet. Well...

> The Pegasos OpenBSD distro will be available for download later this
> month to all Pegasos owners."

...To speak for everyone, "That's cool. Will it make a proper showing at http://openbsd.org/plat.html?"

Everyone in this scene is so concerned about CDs, but what we want are 'real' developers considering PowerPC as a primary platform, right? Not so much fun to be relegated to http://openbsd.org/products.html, though savvy manufacturers would be able to land on both. (...and at that point, why would anyone buy hardware that *isn't* so friendly to the distro? ;))
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 11 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Neko on 14-Oct-2003 19:42 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (Joe "Floid" Kanowitz):
Agreed!

I'd love to see the re-emergence of the OpenBSD/powerpc port, rather than the
abomination that has become OpenBSD/macppc.

I never understood the need for the name change, to be honest :/

=Neko=
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 12 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by strobe on 15-Oct-2003 00:10 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Anonymous):
>FreeBSD is the one we all want ;-)

FreeBSD doesn't yet exist for the PowerPC.

There is I believe ONE guy porting it to Apple hardware. If you want to give him a free Pegasos email grehan@freebsd.org
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 13 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 15-Oct-2003 01:58 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (strobe):
> FreeBSD is the one we all want ;-)

For uniprocessor machines, any of the three (four, with DragonFly) BSD kernels should serve about equally well. Overall "features" are also shared pretty equally, though if you have a favorite soft-RAID mechanism (vinum, raidframe), firewall (pf), or 'special needs' (TrustedBSD, ProPolice), you'll probably have reasons to play favorites until further cross-adoptions settle.

That said, one of FreeBSD's bigger draws is the Ports collection. FreeBSD's weighs in at 9,212; NetBSD pkgsrc is quietly second with 4,157; OpenBSD apparently has 2,182 as of 3.3. Given the sheer convenience, it's easy to stick with "the one with the most software" in lieu of other considerations... *But* Net's and Open's will have had that much more testing on platforms with, for instance, different endianness, hopefully ensuring that *you* won't be stuck as the first one to show up a bug when it comes time to install some essential application.

Nothing that can't get solved as FreeBSD's crossplatform support matures, but ask yourself if, when, and where you want to be contributing to the testing... and/or what'll best serve neophytes looking for something more 'organized' than existing Linux choices. [Hey, it takes a *trained* guinea pig to file a useful PR.]

Right now, given the hardware, OpenBSD feels like the best fit for the "real world," and NetBSD feels like it could be the quickest path to a perfect match for the "scene." As far as BSDs are concerned. ;)
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 14 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by Neko on 15-Oct-2003 09:32 GMT
In reply to Comment 12 (strobe):
FreeBSD PowerPC *does* exist.

If you want to check it out of FreeBSD CVS, you can.

At least one of the guys on the FreeBSD-PPC mailing list has a Pegasos, too.

=Neko=
OpenBSD ready for the Pegasos : Comment 15 of 15ANN.lu
Posted by alan buxey on 16-Oct-2003 07:16 GMT
In reply to Comment 14 (Neko):
aye...its almost there. as the FreeBSD page says:

"Most recent additions to the list of upcoming platforms are IA-64, MIPS and PowerPC"

..quite happily running the new Sparc64 version now! :-)

alan
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