Paul L. Snyder on 12 May 2005 17:54:14 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Free computer.


Quoting Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com>:

> On Thu, May 12, 2005 1:35 pm, sean finney said:
> > On Thu, May12, 2005 at 12:00:09PM -0400, William H. Magill wrote:
> >> FreeBSD runs much better on the Alphas than NetBSD.  FreeBSD Alpha is
> >> still under active development, don't know about NetBSD.
> >
> > and there's always debian :)
> >
> > 	sean
> 
> don't forget gentoo ;)

And don't forget...Windows NT.  I think I still have an NT-for-Alpha
CD kicking around somewhere.

Though it, er, isn't what you could call "under active development".

On the plus side, most of the Windows exploits out there are
x86-specific, so you would have what might be called security through
perversity.

pls
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