Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:19:26 +0100 From: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> To: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SunOS & SPARC Message-ID: <20021230131926.69c87bc1.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0212301257450.15975-100000@kvist.cs.umu.se> References: <20021230124715.28dee227.flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0212301257450.15975-100000@kvist.cs.umu.se>
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On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 13:01:21 +0100 (MET) Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> 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/ Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk Of course it runs NetBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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