Re: Review Article: Comparison Linux / NetBSD for Amiga
On Jan 07, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> For my review article for german Amiga print magazine "Amiga-Magazin" I am
> searching on information to give the user a comparison between Linux and
> NetBSD on Amiga.
>
> I only know it this far:
>
> - NetBSD seems to have better gfx card support especially under X11
> - resolution mode change
> - 16/24 bit support (probably also there with Linux 2.1+ kernels)
> - more gfx cards
16/24 bit support should be available for the Cybervision 64, CV-3D,
and the Cirrus Logic cards (Picasso, GVP Spectrum) in recent Linux
kernels. I don't know much about it, though. I guess I should put my
old CV64 in the computer and play with it some ;-)
16/24 bit support is also possible with the CybervisionPPC for the
PowerPC processors.
> - The NetBSD on the Amiga Unix Compendium CD comes with compiled KDE
> packages, Linux m68k does not. Important for the user IMHO!
At least Debian doesn't come with KDE on any platform. You can
probably recompile the packages at http://kde.tdyc.com/, though KDE
may make it into Debian 2.2 (I have yet to hear the official "word" on
this, though, since some people in KDE and Debian seem to go out of
their way to piss each other off... kinda like FreeBSD and Linux
people do on Intel, I think ;-).
> Any further information available? I see NetBSD has a feature list in some
> readmes, but I didn't find this for Linux m68k right now.
try: http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/faq.html
You can also see the lists of packages that Debian and Red Hat include
at: http://www.lordsutch.com/cds/
Chris
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