From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 12:31: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A8D014A16 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id VAA19231 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:30:56 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA86068 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:41:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Whatever happened to FreeBSD/SPARC? Date: 24 Jan 2000 20:41:54 +0100 Message-ID: <86i9u2$2k1b$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <00256870.0050C1A5.00@rslhub.raytheon.co.uk> <01f201bf667b$830f1ec0$4d01190a@tp.com.pe> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Richard Cotrina 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message