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At 6:59 PM -0500 2/3/06, Miles Nordin wrote:
>  >>>>> "rs" == Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> writes:
>
>     rs>   FreeBsd 6.0 works fine on my U10,
>
>except that by ``fine'' you mean Firefox/Mozilla and anything
>else that makes heavy use of POSIX threads doesn't work.  Does
>gdb work again?  gprof?  CVSup?  Java won't work, of course.

CVSup works.  It doesn't work on PowerPC, but it does on sparc64.
And there seems to be a lot of progress on 'csup' lately (that's
the rewrite of cvsup in C).

Obviously different people will have different packages that they
need.  For *me* and my needs, the sparc64 port is fine.  What isn't
fine for me is that I'm running it on a slow ultra-10, but that
isn't freebsd's fault!       :-)

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