From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 7: 1: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from demo.telefonica.com.pe (kheops.demo.telefonica.com.pe [200.37.84.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DAF615251 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 07:00:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rcc@demo.telefonica.com.pe) Received: from elcsa20008 (dbase.demo.telefonica.com.pe [200.37.84.135]) by demo.telefonica.com.pe (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA14889; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 10:01:11 +0500 (GMT) Message-ID: <01f201bf667b$830f1ec0$4d01190a@tp.com.pe> From: "Richard Cotrina" To: , References: <00256870.0050C1A5.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> Subject: RE: Whatever happened to FreeBSD/SPARC? Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:58:44 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Does FreeBSD/SPARC still exist ? AFAK, It already exists, but it is still in proyect state . > or am I going to have to live with Slow-aris > till the thing gives up life (SPARCstation 20)? You have two BSD options for Sparc hardware : OpenBSD and NetBSD . But, IMHO, they don't have enough pre-compiled packages , port collection, and support as FreeBSD has, I think, because they are oriented to security and to harware portability respectively. Regards, Richard Cotrina To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message