Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 09:17:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: Rod Person <roddierod@hotpop.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] Help I've just been Given an Ultra Sparc II Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.43.0208260911420.48989-100000@babelfish.pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020826110922.00a7ee68@pop.hotpop.com>
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On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Rod Person wrote: > Well I recently (within the last 5 minutes) have been given an Ultra Sparc > II machine. No one knows what is on. I just need a little help deciding > what to run on it. I'm downloading Sparc 9 since it's free. But I > was wondering if anyone had in suggestion as to NetBSD or OpenBSD or even > a Linux that might be a better choice for it! I always feel it's swimming upstream to run anything but Solaris/SunOS on a Sun box. You *can*, don't get me wrong, but it's kind of like teaching a Lab not to retrieve. Everything you look for, use, compile, etc. will have assumed that you are running Solaris. If you're prepared for that, you certainly can run Linux or *BSD on it if you prefer to maintain the mindshare. Solaris is a little top-heavy on a slow box because it carries all the SMP/NIS/etc. stuff along with it; but I actually ran Sol8 on a Sparcstation LX with excellent performance once it was stripped down. www.sunhelp.org is an excellent resource, btw. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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