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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.emf.net!gatech!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet From: miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SPARC operating systems (was Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Date: 09 Apr 1996 19:38:20 -0600 Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Lines: 19 Message-ID: <s891g4x3hv.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> References: <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <4jve3t$cfe@hermes.synopsys.com> <4k0m0f$68j@hoopoe.psc.edu> <4k2i4g$n55@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4k33jr$khp@hoopoe.psc.edu> <s8g2afwrth.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> <4kaplk$61g@skate.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hill.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: September Gnus v0.43/Emacs 19.30 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21076 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:518 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3087 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2876 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17060 > these statistics are all very interesting, but why is NetBSD not > included in your table for completeness? This thread is crossposted > to comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc, and NetBSD has been available for SPARC > machines for quite some time (long enough for the Linux developers > to have heard of it, for sure..) Because we lacked a NetBSD system to do the tests on, if you happen to own a Sparc Classic, I would like to see lmbench results as well, I don't have but one classic and it runs Linux. Another reason is that I was answering to a "does Linux run well on an Alpha, or does it just boot?" Miguel. -- miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx The GNU Midnight Commander: http://stekt.oulu.fi/~jtklehto/mc Linux/SPARC project: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/sparclinux.html