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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan A Kane)
Sat May 30 12:13:52 1998
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 12:13:42 -0400
From: Jonathan A Kane <jakane@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Hi,
I am in the process of purchasing a high end PC for my lab (Earth
Resources Laboratory) and I am not sure which hardware to get. I want
to install NetBSD/Athena on it. I have visited
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/i386/index.html but it is very vague as to
what is really supported. I want to get a 400 MHz Pentium II, 256 Meg
RAM, a 9 Gbyte SCSI hard drive, an 8 Meg video card, 32x CD-ROM, a 17"
monitor, and a 1 Gb Jazz Drive. I don't want to buy this and then
realize that NetBSD/Athena won't work on it. How can I know for sure
which top-of-the-line hardware will work?
Also, which version of NetBSD is currently supported by Athena?
They have just released version 1.3.2 but the MIT help page says that
only 1.2 is supported.
One last question. I have RedHat Linux installed on my PC at
home. I get the impression from SIPB that NetBSD/Athena is recommended
over RedHat/Athena. What is your opinion on that?
- Jonathan Kane
