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Date:      Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:32:16 +0100
From:      Heinrich Rebehn <rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de>
To:        Skylar Thompson <skylar@cs.earlham.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20
Message-ID:  <41DE8150.1010302@ant.uni-bremen.de>
In-Reply-To: <41DE37E3.8020709@cs.earlham.edu>
References:  <51296.192.168.2.2.1105070167.squirrel@new.host.name> <41DE37E3.8020709@cs.earlham.edu>

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Skylar Thompson wrote:
> madden@cms-stl.com wrote:
> 
>> I've got a Sun SPARC 20 collecting dust, and I was wondering if any
>> version of FreeBSD would run on my Sun SPARC 20? From what I can gather
>> FreeBSD only works on UltraSPARC.
>>  
>>
> 
> The SS20 isn't an UltraSPARC, so it won't be supported by FreeBSD's 
> Sparc64 port. I've had good luck running NetBSD on an SS20, and IPCs and 
> IPXs, though.
> 
Same with OpenBSD on SS5, which is the same architecture as SS20. I use 
old SS5's as loghosts and FlexLM license hosts under OpenBSD.

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Heinrich Rebehn

University of Bremen
Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
- Department of Telecommunications -

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