Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:19:52 -0500 From: Boris Kochergin <spawk@acm.poly.edu> To: johnj@external.umass.edu Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bailing on Solaris? Message-ID: <4D3F5A98.6040700@acm.poly.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.64.1101251726530.11805@blueman> References: <mailman.0.1295994058.43055.freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org> <Pine.SOC.4.64.1101251726530.11805@blueman>
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I think support for the hardware is pretty good, and more is constantly being added. I have 7.x and 8.x running on Ultra 5s and E450s doing various things. No major complaints. Some third-party software, as found in the ports tree, lags behind i386 and amd64 for obvious reasons, but the popular stuff works fine. In terms of five years down the line, I'm not sure what the current lack of clang/LLVM in the base system for that architecture means for it in the long term. -Boris On 01/25/11 17:32, John Jackson wrote: > Sooo, how many other people have come here lately because they are > ready to bail on Solaris? Ooops, I mean Oracle??? :( > >> From what I can see so far, it looks like FreeBSD has solid and still > healthy support for Sparc platforms? I'm trying to decide where to > jump to, since Oracle seems like it's accellerating toward death for > Solaris as I've come to gladly know it over the last 5 years or so. > Does anyone want to email me their opinion on using FreeBSD on Sun > hardware? I've got 4 Sunfire 280R's that I've been planning on > putting into service for the next 5 years or so.. > > -John > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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