From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 26 9:17:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E7C37B400 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C10AF43E42 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7QGHCRf049022; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:17:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:17:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: Rod Person Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Help I've just been Given an Ultra Sparc II In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020826110922.00a7ee68@pop.hotpop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Rod Person wrote: > Well I recently (within the last 5 minutes) have been given an Ultra Sparc > II machine. No one knows what is on. I just need a little help deciding > what to run on it. I'm downloading Sparc 9 since it's free. But I > was wondering if anyone had in suggestion as to NetBSD or OpenBSD or even > a Linux that might be a better choice for it! I always feel it's swimming upstream to run anything but Solaris/SunOS on a Sun box. You *can*, don't get me wrong, but it's kind of like teaching a Lab not to retrieve. Everything you look for, use, compile, etc. will have assumed that you are running Solaris. If you're prepared for that, you certainly can run Linux or *BSD on it if you prefer to maintain the mindshare. Solaris is a little top-heavy on a slow box because it carries all the SMP/NIS/etc. stuff along with it; but I actually ran Sol8 on a Sparcstation LX with excellent performance once it was stripped down. www.sunhelp.org is an excellent resource, btw. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message