From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 12:37:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28882 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from insomnia.local.net (max1-41.columbus.megsinet.net [209.81.172.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28874 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 12:37:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmutter@devrycols.edu) Received: from localhost (jmutter@localhost) by insomnia.local.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA16645; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:39:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jmutter@devrycols.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: insomnia.local.net: jmutter owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:39:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jm7996@devrycols.edu To: Craig cc: jm7996@devrycols.edu, rick hamell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd In-Reply-To: <35E85014.4FB8110E@doomnet.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Craig wrote: > ok.. what about openBSD? > > I have been told that is a great O/S to use... > > Anyone help on this! hehe > I'm not sure about about OpenBSD on an old Sparc. But it wouldn't surprise me if it did. > > > > > All in all, FreeBSD has been for me easier to install by far. It > > > seems to have a lot better quality control, a better help mailing list, > > > and a lot more knowledgable people, and if FreeBSD worked on the lower > > > end SparcStations, I would have installed it in a heartbeat. > > > > NetBSD, which is also an *excellent* operating system, will run like a > > champion on that lower end Sparc. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message