From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 9:46:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FCF537B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:46:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA24947 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:44:08 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A5DF088.70ADFED9@mail.iowna.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:42:33 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: General Questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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