Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:37:38 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Matthias Buelow" <mkb@incubus.de>, <madden@cms-stl.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20 Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEPIEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <41DE2524.1030702@incubus.de>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Matthias Buelow > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:59 PM > To: madden@cms-stl.com > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20 > > > madden@cms-stl.com wrote: > > > I've got a Sun SPARC 20 collecting dust, and I was wondering if any > > version of FreeBSD would run on my Sun SPARC 20? From what I can gather > > FreeBSD only works on UltraSPARC. > > Maybe not FreeBSD but both NetBSD and Solaris work very well on the > Sparc 20, and they're available for free. (Well, actually if your SS20 > has more than one CPU, you'd have to get a commercial license for > Solaris 9, and shouldn't use the free license, since that's only for one > CPU but I mean, it's hardly stealing candies from little children, is > it... and reportedly Solaris 10 will be "open source" anyways, so what.) > Sun used to give out free licenses for up to 4 cpu's. He may have registered for one of these back when they were giving them out. Even if not the Solaris license nowadays is only a couple hundred bucks, much less than Microsoft XP Server. Also, with a Sparc 20 try to load a copy of Solaris 2.6 rather than a later copy, it will run faster and Sun still releases patches for it. Ted
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