Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:52:56 -0500 From: Mark <y3k@gti.net> To: Scott Pilz <tech@squid.tznet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General Questions Message-ID: <3A5E5560.5B92E2E@gti.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101110808250.74730-100000@squid.tznet.com>
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Scott Pilz wrote: > Background: > We ran into another ISP (about the same size, just more funding) that > decided to merge in one way or another, they run SunOS 5.6 on three-four > different boxes (with Sun hardware). > > For ISP ussage, what is recommended, SunOS or FreeBSD? > > Can FreeBSD run on Sun hardware that is apx. 2 years old? Does it run > well? What about Sun hardware that is running more than one proccessor? > > Are FreeBSD and Sun very different from one another? (I realize unix is > unix, as windows is windows, and dos is dos, however the command > structures I'm slightly confused about) > > I spent an hour yesterday trying to find a SunOS command just to read the > CPU ussage (such as TOP does in BSD) and failed :-(.. Anyone know any > commands like this? > > In the long run, I hope to switch these Sun boxes to BSD, I'm *sold* on > BSD, atleast for ISP aspects, is this a good idea to switch, or is it > worth while learning another OS because Sun offers more than BSD? I dont know about netBSD, but OpenBSD has binary emulation for most SunOS programs. I'm running it on a Sparc IPX and it seems to work pretty well. -mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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