From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jan 19 9:23:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D400B152DC for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:23:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA77989; Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:23:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:23:38 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Sconiers Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sparc Port -- sounds good to me Message-ID: <20000119092338.Q67844@relay.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <200001191159.GAA03673@bg-tc-ppp596.monmouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre1i In-Reply-To: X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:12:06AM -0600, John Sconiers wrote: > Quick question....shouldn't we start with NetBSD.....I'm under the > impression that OpenBSD's port _IS_ NetBSD's port with a few bug fixes and > stronger security and starting from NetBSD would be easier?? OpenBSD was that 2.5 years ago. Think how much FreeBSD has changed in that time -- that is how much OpenBSD has diverged from NetBSD. Personally I would suggest NetBSD because /usr/pkgsrc/cross/ might provide a better starting point at the cross toolchain. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message