Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 14:21:33 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: Peter McGarvey <Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: FreeBSD vs Solaris Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.4.10.9912101420170.4746-100000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.9912101003400.500-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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OpenBSD also runs on SPARC... See http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html for details. No first hand experience, I only know it exists. Eric Wayte, DBA Univ. of Central Florida ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 10:05:43 -0400 (AST) > From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> > To: Peter McGarvey <Networks.Manager@rncm.ac.uk> > Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Subject: RE: FreeBSD vs Solaris > > On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Peter McGarvey wrote: > > > > > > > You want something fairly maintenance free, go Sparc...you do get what you > > > pay for. Now if only FreeBSD ran on it, I could have good hardware *and* > > > operating system in one box :) > > > > > > > Does not NetBSD run on SPARC? > > It does...but, "where I work", getting FreeBSD in on the Intel boxes > themselves is like pulling teeth. I've succeeded in getting 3 ppl > converted over on their desktops, and "sliding through" a server so > far...all in the past couple of months (taken me ~2years to get to *that* > point)...but, I do have a Sparc sitting here, sitting idle...putting > NetBSD onto that *would* be sweet... > > Thanks for the pointer, hadn't thought about that...will look at it > :) The more *BSDs, the happier I am :) > > Thanks... > > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy > Systems Administrator @ hub.org > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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