On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Anthony Baxter wrote:

>  On Friday 06 January 2006 07:44, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> > With the gentoo installation, I think we have "enough" linux for
> > the moment. Somebody noticed that the Waterfall view of buildbot
> > quickly becomes unreadable if there are too many builds.
> 
>  My only concern is that it's gentoo, not just linux. I know that for a
>  couple of my other open source projects I usually don't spend too
>  long debugging bizarrely broken apparent bugs, because it ends up
>  being some strange build flag or some such on the gentoo box in
>  question. On the other hand, this box is unlikely to have been built
>  with a selection of gcc flags that Neal just selected randomly from
>  the gcc manual <wink> so it's probably going to be better than that.
> 
> >> Heck, there's a pile of 500MHz P3s sitting here that I could drop
> >> a random free unix onto if someone wants to nominate something
> >> that's
> >>
> >> a) useful
> >> b) not a total pain in the clacker to install.
> >
> > For a), I think one of the BSDs might be useful. Whether they
> > qualify for b), I don't know.
> 
>  Anyone else have an opinion on the ease of installation for the
>  various BSDs? Last time I tried one (which was several years ago) it
>  was Not Very Good.

FreeBSD and OpenBSD are painless these days, assuming that you're  
comfortable reading text during installation.  No experience with  
NetBSD.

-bob

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