Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ?? To : Gamgee From : poindexter FORTRAN Date : Fri Apr 21 2023 08:02:00 -=> Gamgee wrote to Arelor <=- Ga> I've told myself for years that I should learn one (or more) of the Ga> BSD's, but have never gotten around to it. Maybe I'll bump that up on Ga> my TODO list a little. Would you recommend trying OpenBSD first, or Ga> FreeBSD? Related question - once you "know" one of them, is the other Ga> one easy/similar? I'd start with FreeBSD first, then work your way to NetBSD if you want wider hardware support and OpenBSD if you want to DIY. My admittedly 50,000 foot take on the current state of BSD is that FreeBSD and derivatives remind me of the convenience of Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, whereas NetBSD and OpenBSD are reminiscent of Arch and Slackware Linux, where you can tweak the system exactly how you like at the trade-off of more manual configuration being needed. I'm no BSD slouch, but haven't done more than play with it in 20-someodd years. I started running SunOS on old Sun hardware and BSD/OS on Intel back in the '90s, and ran a couple of high-traffic sites on BSDs. Personally, I'd love to find some old obscure hardware that NetBSD supports and run it on my desktop. Fire up Mutt and Lynx and ditch the web for a while. I'm more of a text guy by nature. As for what platforms are supported by NetBSD, see below. This is in addition to the standard Sparc64, AMD64, x86, and assorted mainstream architectures. Port CPU Machines acorn32 arm Acorn RiscPC/A7000/NC and compatibles algor mips Algorithmics MIPS evaluation boards alpha alpha Digital Alpha (64-bit) amiga m68k Commodore Amiga, MacroSystem DraCo amigappc powerpc PowerPC-based Amiga boards arc mips Machines following the Advanced RISC Computing spec atari m68k Atari TT030, Falcon, Hades bebox powerpc Be Inc's BeBox cats arm Chalice Technology's Strong Arm evaluation board cesfic m68k CES's FIC8234 VME processor board cobalt mips Cobalt Networks' Microservers dreamcast sh3 Sega Dreamcast game console epoc32 arm 32bit PSION EPOC PDA emips mips Machines based on "Extensible MIPS" evbsh3 sh3 Evaluation boards with Renesas (Hitachi) Super-H SH3 and SH4 CPUs ews4800mips mips NEC's MIPS based EWS4800 workstations hp300 m68k Hewlett-Packard 9000/300 and 400 series hppa hppa Hewlett-Packard 9000/700 series hpcmips mips MIPS based Windows CE PDA machines hpcsh sh3 Renesas (Hitachi) SH3 and SH4 based Windows CE PDA machines ia64 itanium Itanium family of processors none ibmnws powerpc IBM Network Station Series 1000 iyonix arm Iyonix ARM pc landisk sh3 SH4 based NAS appliances by I-O DATA luna68k m68k OMRON Tateisi Electronics' LUNA series mac68k m68k Apple Macintosh macppc powerpc Apple Power Macintosh and clones mipsco mips Mips family of workstations and servers mmeye sh3 Brains' mmEye Multi Media Server mvme68k m68k Motorola MVME 68k SBCs mvmeppc powerpc Motorola MVME PowerPC SBCs netwinder arm StrongARM based NetWinder machines news68k m68k Sony's m68k based "NET WORK STATION" series newsmips mips Sony's MIPS based "NET WORK STATION" series next68k m68k NeXT 68k 'black' hardware ofppc powerpc Generic OpenFirmware compliant PowerPC machines pmax mips Digital MIPS-based DECstations and DECsystems prep powerpc PReP (PowerPC Reference Platform) and CHRP machines riscv riscv RISC-V none rs6000 powerpc MCA-based IBM RS/6000 workstations sandpoint powerpc Motorola Sandpoint reference platform sbmips mips Broadcom SiByte evaluation boards sgimips mips Silicon Graphics' MIPS-based workstations shark arm Digital DNARD ("shark") sparc sparc Sun SPARC (32-bit) sun2 m68k Sun 2 sun3 m68k Sun 3 and 3x vax vax Digital VAX x68k m68k Sharp X680x0 series zaurus arm Sharp C7x0/C860/C1000/C3x00 series PDA .... YORGAMAK HAS ARRIVED AND WILL INITIATE DESTRUCTIMATION. --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122) .