gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:57:05 -0500


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Re: Re: [PLUG] OT Sparc 

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:09:27AM -0500, Tobias DiPasquale wrote:
> Another even more pertinent reason not to use FreeBSD on Sparc is that
> it's very new and not well supported yet. You can only get support for
> Sparc64 with FreeBSD 5.x, which isn't released yet and is iffy at best.
> However, I am having pretty good luck with OpenBSD 3.2 on Sparc64 and
> NetBSD should likewise support the Sparc64 architecture quite well
> (having been supporting it the longest of the three OS's in question).

Considering OpenBSD's original sparc and sparc64 ports come straight
out of NetBSD's source tree, and the same people work on the ports
for both OSes today, you should find almost identical behavior. :^>

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gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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