From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 25 23:46:58 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE757106566B for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:46:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spawk@acm.poly.edu) Received: from acm.poly.edu (acm.poly.edu [128.238.9.200]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1388FC08 for ; Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:46:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 76326 invoked from network); 25 Jan 2011 23:20:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (spawk@96.224.221.101) by acm.poly.edu with CAMELLIA256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 25 Jan 2011 23:20:16 -0000 Message-ID: <4D3F5A98.6040700@acm.poly.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:19:52 -0500 From: Boris Kochergin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101031 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: johnj@external.umass.edu References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bailing on Solaris? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:46:58 -0000 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"