[Info-vax] Has comp.os.vms turned into comp.os.any-os ?

[Gary Sparkes]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:04:26 +0000, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:

> With what's been done to Linux over the years, I'm leaning towards
> switching to one of the BSDs, or even OpenVMS/x86 (if they can allow
> third party drivers so I can actually run this bare metal on my
> Threadripper and have nice things like X11/Wayland as my OpenVMS
> desktop).
> 
> None of the BSDs have been infected by the madness that's currently
> afflicting Linux and FreeBSD supports ZFS which I use daily with Linux.
> 
> (just throwing more fuel on the fire :-D ...)


I'm highly waiting on this, while testing some devices and code in Alpha 
and Itanium systems, for when that floodgate opens. A fair amount of 
things i'm working on are hardware support for specialty things, and lack 
of being able to (so far) load my own drivers without some insane steps 
is... well, putting things on hold for people who're excited to get rid of 
some older hardware.