Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 17:18:13 -0800 From: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: srn@flibble.psrg.cs.usyd.edu.au, freebsd-platforms@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: Some one working on a SPARC version? Message-ID: <332B4A23.7008@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <199703152208.JAA04996@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au>
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John Birrell wrote: > > The NetBSD SPARC port is impressing, it runs SunOS 4.1 stuff and > > emulates some Solaris also. Since we canīt beat them...I guess we will > > some day copy most of their stuff. > > I always thought the saying was: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em". > While there is no FreeBSD for other architectures I *do* recommend NetBSD or OpenBSD to my friends. > Why not _share_ "their" stuff? Sigh. > Porting FreeBSD to other architectures is more than just using a ports tree and adapting the VM. We must keep our stuff to retain our identity 8)... Well "copy" or "share" is about the same in the free world. Pedro. > > -- > John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@netbsd.org > CIMlogic Pty Ltd, 119 Cecil Street, South Melbourne Vic 3205, Australia > Tel +61 3 9690 6900 Fax +61 3 9690 6650 Mob +61 418 353 137
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