Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:42:33 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: General Questions Message-ID: <3A5DF088.70ADFED9@mail.iowna.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101100946580.8864-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
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Rick Hamell wrote: > > > > 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... :) Well, I'll happily stand corrected on this point, as I've never actually TRIED running anything on a Sun box other than the OEM OS. In reality, I've come in contact with very few Sun boxes - dealing mostly with Intel-based hardware. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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