From owner-freebsd-platforms Sat Mar 15 14:56:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14205 for platforms-outgoing; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 14:56:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co ([168.176.37.75]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA14200 for ; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 14:56:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from unalmodem.usc.unal.edu.co (unalmodem08.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.38]) by apolo.biblos.unal.edu.co (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id RAA00695; Sat, 15 Mar 1997 17:56:47 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <332B4A23.7008@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 17:18:13 -0800 From: Pedro Giffuni X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Birrell CC: srn@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au, freebsd-platforms@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some one working on a SPARC version? References: <199703152208.JAA04996@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-platforms@freeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Birrell wrote: > > The NetBSD SPARC port is impressing, it runs SunOS 4.1 stuff and > > emulates some Solaris also. Since we canīt beat them...I guess we will > > some day copy most of their stuff. > > I always thought the saying was: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em". > While there is no FreeBSD for other architectures I *do* recommend NetBSD or OpenBSD to my friends. > Why not _share_ "their" stuff? Sigh. > Porting FreeBSD to other architectures is more than just using a ports tree and adapting the VM. We must keep our stuff to retain our identity 8)... Well "copy" or "share" is about the same in the free world. Pedro. > > -- > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, 119 Cecil Street, South Melbourne Vic 3205, Australia > Tel +61 3 9690 6900 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Mob +61 418 353 137