Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Gamgee
Date : Fri Apr 21 2023 11:11:00

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Gamgee <=-

 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?

 pF> I'd start with FreeBSD first, then work your way to NetBSD if you
 pF> want wider hardware support and OpenBSD if you want to DIY.

 pF> My admittedly 50,000 foot take on the current state of BSD is
 pF> that FreeBSD and derivatives remind me of the convenience of
 pF> Debian/Ubuntu/Mint, whereas NetBSD and OpenBSD are reminiscent of
 pF> Arch and Slackware Linux, where you can tweak the system exactly
 pF> how you like at the trade-off of more manual configuration being
 pF> needed.

Okay, thanks for that info, it's quite helpful.  I use mostly Slackware 
Linux now, so those analogies make some sense to me.

<SNIP>

 pF> As for what platforms are supported by NetBSD, see below. This is
 pF> in addition to the standard Sparc64, AMD64, x86, and assorted
 pF> mainstream architectures.

<SNIP>

Wow, quite an impressive list of supported architectures!  I'd probably 
only be trying it on x86 stuff.  Appreciate the reply!



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