[H-GEN] Unix Flavours

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, gavin duley wrote:

> One way to get try out NetBSD (from the point of view of a user, rather 
> than a sysadmin) would be to get an account on SDF Public Access Unix 
> System. This runs NetBSD on DEC Alpha hardware.

> Playing around with an ARPA or MetaARPA account[1] would give you a good 
> basic idea of what the OS is like to use, without having to install it 
> on your own machine. You can always do this later, if you decide you 
> prefer it to GNU/Linux.

An alternatice is also to use virtualisation.  Build a few virtual 
machines (using VMWare on Linux, say) and play with them all.

Cheers,

Rob

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