From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 30 5:34:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1BC737B401 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 05:34:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8BBB43EC2 for ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 05:34:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C619FA1; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:34:38 +0100 (MET) Received: from kvist.cs.umu.se (kvist.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.192]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C995F9F1A; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:34:36 +0100 (MET) Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 14:34:36 +0100 (MET) From: Paul Everlund To: Miguel Mendez Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SunOS & SPARC In-Reply-To: <20021230131926.69c87bc1.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:01:21 +0100 (MET) > Paul Everlund wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have a SPARC box, but thought of running proprietary SunOS-SPARC- > > binaries on a much better FreeBSD box (better because it's easier to > > maintain, upgrade packages and so on, on FreeBSD than SunOS). Guess > > I'll have to stick with the SPARC. > > Although not directly related to your original question, you might want > to know that NetBSD's pkgsrc (the equivalent to FreeBSD's ports) runs on > SunOS, it even runs on Linux. That could help you with having up to date > software on the Sun box. Check: http://www.netbsd.org/zoularis/ I'll take a look at it! Thank you! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message