From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jul 6 08:47:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA27896 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 08:47:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from artemis.syncom.net (artemis.syncom.net [206.64.31.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA27880 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 08:47:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cyouse@artemis.syncom.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by artemis.syncom.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA23599 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:54:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 11:54:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Youse To: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Sun4c/Sun4m Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was delighted to discover that FreeBSD is being ported to the Sparc! Sparcs are excellent machines, but finding a good operating system for them is tough. * Solaris is too big, slow, and System V for my tastes. * Net/OpenBSD are nice, but generally unpolished (on any architecture). Sparc support in general is sub-par. * Linux is nice, but a little too sloppy. Not to mention that its stability is questionable on sun4c/sun4m. I can't comment on Ultralinux, though I've heard that it's much better. I think FreeBSD is polished, professional, and stable. While the port to the Ultra is obviously paramount, I'd still like to see FreeBSD on the 4m and 4c, as those machines are aging but still usable. If you can provide some technical documentation here and there (many questions can be answered by looking at *BSD and Linux source ...) I'm willing and able to take on those architectures. Is anybody currently working on that? Chuck Youse To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message