From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Jun 29 12:24:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mulan.twilley.org (alpha.twilley.org [166.84.147.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E6B37B88E for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 12:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmt@tbe.net) Received: from duchess.twilley.org (IDENT:jmt@duchess.twilley.org [10.74.84.1]) by mulan.twilley.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA15806 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:23:13 -0400 Received: (from jmt@localhost) by duchess.twilley.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA19151; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 15:24:11 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: duchess.twilley.org: jmt set sender to jmt@tbe.net using -f To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Status of FreeBSD on the Sparc architecture? From: Jack Twilley X-Attribution: Jack X-PGP-Key: 0x007F7B38 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5315 7434 6095 DF36 995B 3407 18F1 527C 007F 7B38 X-Face: -aT_3D,@|Ngv8(RriE+AA_SZAPp-vuRGEbW8Yjd3J4V:ipbK3UQsOnMT{9T}h@sr17q%cX27q4Dc^vq]vc*A`.hnG8DSW#@G5~v"WeP-/06JM(-TkixR Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have a home network of four machines -- firewall, server, workstation, laptop -- plus another eight or nine machines used for different purposes. I'm evaluating FreeBSD as a replacement for Linux, and so far it looks good. My only concern is that I can't find any information about the status of FreeBSD on the Sparc. My firewall's a Sparc, and I'd want it to run FreeBSD just like the rest of the network. I have four or five years' experience doing the sysadmin thing, and I know my way around a compiler. I can write bug reports, and can go through documentation looking for errors. I'm a little nervous about writing new code, but I have a little skill at finding bugs in other people's code. I can dedicate ten to fifteen hours a week to helping make this work, if it'll really work. Anyone know what's up with this? Jack. (not yet on the list.) -- Jack Twilley jmt at tbe dot net http colon slash slash www dot tbe dot net slash tilde jmt slash To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message