From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 16 09:42:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA09718 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 09:42:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net ([198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA09713 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 09:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.2/8.6.9) id MAA00784; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:42:15 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199611161742.MAA00784@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: unix for sun sparc To: mikem@minn.net (Michael D. Malszycki) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 12:42:15 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <328D944F.20C4@minn.net> from "Michael D. Malszycki" at Nov 16, 96 10:15:43 am Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have been viewing the FreeBSD site and am very curious and excited > about the possibilities this site affords. I have been given a > SunSparc IPC (1990 manufactured) without an operating system. I would > like to know if Free BSD would be compatible with this machine. If not > could you point me in the right direction to obtain the correct flavor > of Unix? > NetBSD is probably your "best friend" for that architecture. You can use the operating system, and also feel like you can contribute, if you want... John