From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Dec 9 21:38:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA03186 for freebsd-sparc-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from obie.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03180 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 21:38:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06936; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 22:37:53 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <366F5E30.2ED4962C@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 22:37:52 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg Lehey CC: John Birrell , Alfred Perlstein , freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... References: <199812092047.HAA11402@cimlogic.com.au> <19981210110516.V12688@freebie.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey wrote: > > One thing in particular occurred to me in this context: why does Sun > want Linux or *BSD? On the whole, Solaris this week> is a pretty good operating system, and neither Linux nor > *BSD can equal it. What advantage would I have running FreeBSD on my > UltraSparc? Or should we be doing what NetBSD and OpenBSD are already > doing and running it on older (32 bit) Sparc hardware? That depends on which Sun you're talking about. From the standpoint of Sun Microelectronics, the branch of Sun that sells hardware to OEMs, they would garner a royalty-free operating system that can be embeded into systems with no licensing fees. This would be a good incentive for some markets they play in, most certainly telecommunications (i.e. phone switches). -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message