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From: "Barry Byrne" <barry.byrne@wbtsystems.com>
To: <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: RE: Using FreeBSD on a Sun Fire 280R server
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:45:25 -0000
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Hiten:

FreeBSD is primarily targetted at i386 and Dec Alpha architectures. There is
a Sparc port (http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html), but it is still
developmental. You might want to look at NetBSD - http://www.netbsd.org/
which runs on a wide variety of platforms.

 - Barry


> Hello and greetings,
>
> Is it possible to run FreeBSD on a Sun Fire 280R server?  Most of the
> applications we want to run are:
>
>  o MySQL
>  o Perl / C and C++
>  o and the base operating system with networking support.
>
> Thanks,
> Regards,
>
>
>   -- Hiten Pandya
>   -- <hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org>
>
> [ Please CC' a copy of the mail to me, as I am currently not subscribed
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