Ian Scott wrote:
I have tried both on my Quadra 800.
First I tried Debian linux. I had quite a few problems with dselect (the package management system) giving nasty segmentation faults, after which lots
of things segfaulted, which in some cases meant I couldn't shut down cleanly as
shutdown segfaulted, so I had to power cycle.
I persevered and got it all runnign - X was OK, if a little slow.
After a power cycle killed my root partition, I tried NetBSD. This seemed to be more stable, but less capable (only monochrome, for example).
Of course, my linux problems may well have been caused by flaky hardware, and I may just have been lucky so far with netBSD. YMMV
Thank you Ian, it almost mirrors my experience with each.
The ftp install of debian woody went without a hitch, your segmentation faults may well be media or hardware related?
I'm interested in your choice of desktop managers, not that I found anything I wouldnt describe as slow. :( Blackbox works with reasonable speed, I've been told to try icewm but its still on the todo list.
Netbsd was a dissappointment using X with its monochrome display, while in cli it seems much of a muchness compared to deb.
Why folks continue to recommend Netbsd over Deb is a mystry to me which is why I ask "why", hoping somebody will throw in one reasonable use that isn't covered by linux.
Cheers
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