Re: SUN LX longevity and Solaris 7 opinions

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From: farndog
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 00:00

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I am seriously considering putting either OBSD or NBSD on my
SparcClassic.  What are some of the minimal requirements to accomplish
internet, e-mail, JAVA programming, and simple word processing in those
operating systems?  And do they run well under those requirements?

Thanks for any input.

-keith

In article <7t6f5d$cnh$1@the-fly.zip.com.au>,
  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.
>
> I've run OpenBSD very well on an IPX.
>
> FreeBSD is i386 and Alpha only.
>
> Cheers.
>

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