From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 16:55:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.gti.net (apollo.gti.net [199.171.27.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2E237B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:55:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from gti.net (ts5m-pool0-59.gti.net [208.216.126.59]) by apollo.gti.net (mail) with ESMTP id D7C28145985; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:54:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A5E5560.5B92E2E@gti.net> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:52:56 -0500 From: Mark X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Pilz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General Questions References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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