Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:05:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Read this... Message-ID: <19981210110516.V12688@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812092047.HAA11402@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 07:47:48AM %2B1100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812091259500.27793-100000@bright.fx.genx.net> <199812092047.HAA11402@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Thursday, 10 December 1998 at 7:47:48 +1100, John Birrell wrote: > Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> Will someone with more courage and experiance than I please speak up about >> this, perhaps contact sun? > > Please _don't_ ask Sun for anything until you have a working port on > limited hardware. I doubt that anyone following this list would be > prepared to spend $$$ based on what has been said so far. Those people > who have access to Sun machines should be able to do a port with neither > financial nor moral support from Sun. If you want this sort of support, > you have to earn it. I suppose I should point you people to http://www.lemis.com/x/sunworld-bsd.html, which is a draft of an article I've submitted to SunWorld. This is for review only in the present form; please don't distribute it, but I'd be interested in comments. One thing in particular occurred to me in this context: why does Sun want Linux or *BSD? On the whole, Solaris <whatever number it is this week> is a pretty good operating system, and neither Linux nor *BSD can equal it. What advantage would I have running FreeBSD on my UltraSparc? Or should we be doing what NetBSD and OpenBSD are already doing and running it on older (32 bit) Sparc hardware? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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