From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 30 12:44:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA07337 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:44:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail1.its.rpi.edu (mail1.its.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA07266 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 12:44:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail1.its.rpi.edu (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id PAA69268 for ; Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:44:07 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: drosih@pop1.rpi.edu Message-Id: Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 15:48:03 -0400 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Fwd: Re: FreeBSD for the Sparc Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 7:36 PM -0400 7/29/98, Mike wrote: >> At no time was there going to be support for geriatric hardware. If >> you want to run a real operating system, the NetBSD folks cater to >> just that sort of nostalgia. > > Not sure *what* you mean by this satement. 'Real operating system'? > Are you trying to be sarcastic? Not much is clear other than the fact > that you need to calm down... I took it to mean: There is no FreeBSD for SPARC. We would like it to exist, but it does not. It is a nice wish, but it is not real. If you want to run a real, existent, available operating system on a range of SPARC-based machines, you could try NetBSD. That OS will even support some of the older SPARC machines, while the FreeBSD/SPARC project never expected to support them. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message