Re: SUN LX longevity and Solaris 7 opinions

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From: Darren Reed
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 00:00

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aeio (nospam@quake.net.au) wrote:
: In aus.computers.sun Craig Dewick <cdewick@lios.apana.org.au> wrote:

: : There is also FreeBSD and OpenBSD, but I'm not sure if either of these can
: : run on Sparc machines.

: OpenBSD runs on SPARC machines. OpenBSD is actually based on the NetBSD
: source tree. There was a fork in the codebase when some of the developers
: wanted to head in different diretions.

: OpenBSD has lots of security features built into. I don't see any reason
: why anyone would run NetBSD when there's OpenBSD.

That's not a very intelligent thing to say, if you ask me.  You may as well
say use Caldera rather than RedHat.  Suffice to say that there is more code
taken from NetBSD and imported into OpenBSD than vice versaa, although there
is also a large common base of 3rd party tools.

Personally, I'd encourage people to use NetBSD on SPARC systems.  But then
I'm biased, being a developer but then so are about half a dozen people in
Melbourne, including one of those who does a lot of work on the SPARC port.
Once NetBSD-1.5 is released, with the merging of IPsec, there will be a lot
less reason to use OpenBSD because of security issues.

If anyone has an idle UltraSPARC system (or other more obscure Sun hardware)
they'd like to donate to an Open Source development group, I know where it
would find a *very* good home and be of immense value to the afore mentioned
group...

Darren

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From: avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au (Darren Reed)
Subject: Re: SUN LX longevity and Solaris 7 opinions
Date: 1999/10/03
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