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carld - 2006-11-27 3:04 AM
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condor - 2006-11-24 8:02 PM
why are people still fumbling with half-ass ported versions of linux when a stable and supported version of netbsd is readily avaliable for the j720/680 and alike?
The trouble with Netbsd comes when you want to compile something from its source tree. You need the whole dang source tree available, as far as I could ever find, to build anything. That's 340+ megs or so. That was a show stopper for me, that and the C compiler kept crashing on me.
Unless something has changed recently, you don't need the whole source tree to compile for netbsd. You will need the toolset, and the appropriate source to compile, however.
My reason for wanting Linux over netbsd is simply that I use Linux day-in and day-out, and I get VERY tired of having to remember which config/startup file does what and what directory it's in. With Linux, at least all I have to remember is which directory the file is in, and it's usually only a couple of minor differences in directories.
The entire netbsd startup process - while similar to any *nix - is different than Linux, and file naming and locations is very different. It also seems MUCH slower than Linux
(at least on the devices I've tested it on - PCs and HPC/PPC
), and seems to use a bit more memory.