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From: Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu>
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Subject: RE: FreeBSD vs Solaris
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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
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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 
> 
> 
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