Re: Attitude (was: keyboard failure)

At Sat, 25 Jan 2003 23:47:10 -0600 [email protected] wrote:

>3) Getting it to run on a Mac68k machine is something I haven't been able 
>to do (with an external drive for swap).  I've successfully installed 
>Solaris, HP-UX, and AIX.  But OpenBSD?  Nope.  I've read lots of docs 
>(some of them wrong) and I've got it to install, sort of.  It doesn't 
>work for long, networking won't work, swap doesn't work right if at all. 
>I'd ask for help, but no one is paying me to deal with rudeness and 
>increasingly, I'm wondering if the payoff is worth it.

Yes, I tune into this list wondering if, one day, I'll ever get round to
a successful Un*x install on these 68k Macs I've got lying around, but I
have to say I find the whole GNU/Linux thing just works better--and I
make more progress--on my recycled Pentiums and my Slackware and my
SuSE... so that's what I use.

I don't want to troll the list (I've lurked on it for several years), but
it seems like the reality is, if you're not a CompSci major (I'm not),
and you just want to get on with the things you want to do... well,
OpenBSD on m68k is probably not for you...

But I keep hoping, and maybe I should try harder to ask not what BSD can
do for me, but what I can do... etc. 

Anyway, regards to all,

D.

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