From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Dec 9 16:35:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21844 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:35:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA21839 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 16:35:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA01608; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:05:17 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA34370; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:05:16 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981210110516.V12688@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:05:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: John Birrell , Alfred Perlstein Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... References: <199812092047.HAA11402@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199812092047.HAA11402@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 07:47:48AM +1100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thursday, 10 December 1998 at 7:47:48 +1100, John Birrell wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> Will someone with more courage and experiance than I please speak up about >> this, perhaps contact sun? > > Please _don't_ ask Sun for anything until you have a working port on > limited hardware. I doubt that anyone following this list would be > prepared to spend $$$ based on what has been said so far. Those people > who have access to Sun machines should be able to do a port with neither > financial nor moral support from Sun. If you want this sort of support, > you have to earn it. I suppose I should point you people to http://www.lemis.com/x/sunworld-bsd.html, which is a draft of an article I've submitted to SunWorld. This is for review only in the present form; please don't distribute it, but I'd be interested in comments. One thing in particular occurred to me in this context: why does Sun want Linux or *BSD? On the whole, Solaris is a pretty good operating system, and neither Linux nor *BSD can equal it. What advantage would I have running FreeBSD on my UltraSparc? Or should we be doing what NetBSD and OpenBSD are already doing and running it on older (32 bit) Sparc hardware? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message