Re: SUN LX longevity and Solaris 7 opinions

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From: Phil Brutsche
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 00:00

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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...

> Solaris isn't the only operating system you can run on LX's. 8-) They can
> also run Linux (both Redhat and Debian produce commercial Sparc ports), and
> my current favourite for alternative operating systems - NetBSD (check it
> out at "http://www.netbsd.org"). I've recently dumped Solaris in favour of
> NetBSD on my Sparc-5 based FTP server machine.

Amen, brother (as I have an IPX running Linux sitting next to me)

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

OpenBSD definitely runs on SPARCstations (OpenBSD split off from NetBSD a
couple of years ago over security issues iirc, and took NetBSD's ability
to run on anything with it; I also considered it for my IPX), but FreeBSD
doesn't. There was an attempt at a sparc64 (the Ultras) port, but it
didn't get very far.  At this point in time, FreeBSD run only on x86 and
alpha.

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Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch@creighton.edu

"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein

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