Re: Linux kernel rant

Rik van Riel (riel@imladris.surriel.com)
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:09:47 -0300 (BRT)

On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, James Buchanan wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 04:54 am, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > I'm not - Theo De Raadt refuses to sign them.
> >
> > And as a consequence he doesn't have the same hardware support.
>
> I don't use a Sparc. I have a stock x86, all works well for me.

You don't need any device drivers ? Curious...

> > Of course, you're free to run openbsd on any machine that
> > supports it. I'm sure you'll be able to put one together
> > from various supported pieces of hardware.
>
> I already have, an old cheap IBM PC/300PL, works nicely.

Not everybody wants to run old hardware though. Some people
actually have a need for performance and new hardware.

Rik

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