From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 18:38:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678D714DDB for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 18:38:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2ive6b8.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.25.104]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA09932; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:37:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <388D0C4A.F971DF6C@confusion.net> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:36:58 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Taylor Cc: Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk, Peter Schwenk , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Whatever happened to FreeBSD/SPARC? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My mailserver, which I don't run myself so I'm not sure, is running NetBSD on a sparc, I think it's a Sparc 20, and it seems to work quite well...i'd heartily recommend it (or OpenBSD if you like security [Not that Net is insecure]). Brett Taylor wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 Chris.Smith@raytheon.co.uk wrote: > > > Linux isn't an option unfortunately. No-one trusts it here! I prefer > > the more traditional BSD flavour OS anyway. > > NetBSD (or OpenBSD) - both appear to run on a SPARC 20. > > Brett > ***************************************************** > Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * > Dept of Chem and Physics * > Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * > Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * > Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * > ***************************************************** > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 2000 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message