[SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris 8 won't run

[DaveMcGuiremcguire at neurotica.com]

  There are no SMP 4c boxes anyway...

     -Dave McGuire

On July 11, Mike Nicewonger wrote:
> I would try either OpenBSD www.openbsd.org or NetBSD www.netbsd.org . Both
> are mature Unicies and  have packages available as well as very easy to
> install ports from source. My preference is OBSD. The only thing that does
> not work is SMP.
> 
> Mike N
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ken Hansen <n2vip at bellatlantic.net>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 8:11 PM
> Subject: [SunRescue] Q on "optimal" OS for Sun4c machines, now that Solaris
> 8 won't run
> 
> 
> Hello,
>     My question, simply, is since Sun have decided to no longer support
> Sun4c
> architecture for Solaris 8, what would folks suggest running on these
> machines?
> 
>     I never thought Solaris 8 would be a great OS to drop on a 64 Meg
> SPARC2,
> but the issue did "sparc" this question... Solaris software seems keyed to
> version 2.5.1 and above, and some fokls are reporting *nearly amazing"
> results
> with some of the *BSD OSs, so I'm wondering what the popular opinion is.
> 
>     In order to make this look like a reasonable question, let me add that
> my
> thought is to use the machine at home, and being able to download pre-built
> binaries would be very useful. This would be a desktop machine with very
> low demand web serving (and maybe SAMBA file serving as well) duties. The
> box in mind specifically is a SS/2 w/Weitek PowerUP and 96 Meg RAM
> (that is 64 Meg + 32 Meg SBUS expansion card).
> 
>     I am concerned that other OSs may drop support, following Suns lead...
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
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