Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 09:48:04 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com> To: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> Cc: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>, Scott Pilz <tech@squid.tznet.com>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: General Questions Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101100946580.8864-100000@heorot.1nova.com> In-Reply-To: <01011112233404.01893@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>
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> > Probably not. I don't think there is anything that will run on a Sun > > box better than the Sun OS. I could be wrong, however. > > I would disagree here. I hear that OpenBSD runs extremely well and > perhaps even more stable than SunOS on Sun hardware. It can only use > one processor in a dual proc machine though. NetBSD should run well on > a multiprocessor Sun machine. Though I hear SunOS still does > multiprocessing slightly faster than NetBSD. It's been my experience that Linux, NetBSD, and OpenBSD all seem to run at least faster then SunOS on both my old IPX and my Sparc 1's... I've not played with anything faster... :) Rick ******************************************************************* Rick's FreeBSD Web page http://heorot.1nova.com/freebsd Ace Logan's Hardware Guide http://www.shatteredcrystal.net/hardware ***FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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