From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 9:25: 2 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E0A337B401 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:24:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 92FAD18B9; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:48:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FF0718B8; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:48:04 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:48:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: Tim McMillen Cc: Bill Moran , Scott Pilz , FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: General Questions In-Reply-To: <01011112233404.01893@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Probably not. I don't think there is anything that will run on a Sun > > box better than the Sun OS. I could be wrong, however. > > I would disagree here. I hear that OpenBSD runs extremely well and > perhaps even more stable than SunOS on Sun hardware. It can only use > one processor in a dual proc machine though. NetBSD should run well on > a multiprocessor Sun machine. Though I hear SunOS still does > multiprocessing slightly faster than NetBSD. It's been my experience that Linux, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all seem to run at least faster then SunOS on both my old IPX and my Sparc 1's... I've not played with anything faster... :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message