Caluser2000
Banned
I'm just beginning to explore the BSDs Chuck. I'll report back as I go. I hope members don't get all over emotional like the K6-2 400 with MMII video card.Well, I don't think that's true for out-of-the-box standard distros. Something about lacking the CMOV instruction. Similarly, they won't run modern browsers, which appear to depend heavily upon SSE2 instructions. I can run FF on Bullseye or Win7 on a P4, but not a P3 or earlier. Of course, the NetBSD claim of "Of course, it runs NetBSD" hasn't really been true for awhile, has it?
I like to see how far I can go wrt to Linux. I generally stear away from the mainstream Distros for old kit. There are Distros that run fine on the old stuff when you start digging into the rabbit whole