From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 29 15:14:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11791 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11786 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:14:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from c@doomnet.demon.co.uk) Received: from (doomnet.demon.co.uk) [194.222.87.192] by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0zCtFH-0002Sp-00; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:13:19 +0000 Message-ID: <35E87CA3.A5F0FA6D@doomnet.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:11:47 +0100 From: Craig Organization: Mean Productions X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jm7996@devrycols.edu CC: rick hamell , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Freebsd References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG oops... seems I got my wires cross here :( sorry! I mean openBSD on a PC.. not a sparc :) C James A. Mutter wrote: > 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