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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD/NetBSD/LINUX - Sun/SPARC version yet? Date: 8 Jan 1995 19:56:24 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3epg18$ero@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <3en027$4cj@hpscit.sc.hp.com> <3eo6kv$kl1@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <3eo6kv$kl1@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) writes: > >Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, >Contractor - Stuart Tener (tener@corp.hp.com) had the courage to say: > >: But -- does freebsd work on the sparc? > >No. > NetBSD works great on the SPARC. It is not so different from FreeBSD, you should give it a try! mybox:~> uname -a NetBSD mybox 1.0 NetBSD 1.0 (MYBOX) #0: Mon Oct 24 18:32:46 EDT 1994 gillham@mybox:/Net/ghost/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/MYBOX sparc mybox:~> uptime 2:50PM up 73 days, 19:53, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00 As you can see, its real *STABLE* too.. :-) -Andrew -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================