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Date:      24 Jan 2000 20:41:54 +0100
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Whatever happened to FreeBSD/SPARC?
Message-ID:  <86i9u2$2k1b$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <00256870.0050C1A5.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> <01f201bf667b$830f1ec0$4d01190a@tp.com.pe>

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Richard Cotrina <rcc@demo.telefonica.com.pe> wrote:

> 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.

I checked the numbers two weeks ago. FreeBSD has ~3000 ports (of
which I have 85 currently installed on this box, and I don't use
packages at all), NetBSD ~1200, OpenBSD ~600.


-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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