[rescue] Solaris 9 released

Rick Hamell hamellr at heorot.1nova.com
Wed May 22 13:55:56 CDT 2002


>     >> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:54:31AM -0400, George Adkins wrote:
>     >> > Yes, in my case, it will simply intensify my intrest in
>     >> FreeBSD/Sparc.
>     >> 
>     >> why FreeBSD?  any particular reason?
>     >> 
>     George> Yes, actually...  SMP support, and active projects
>     George> actually porting useful apps to FreeBSD, Like OpenOffice.
> 
> You'll excuse me, but I'm not even sure FreeBSD run's at all on any
> sparc. As far as I know, none of the BSD's support sparc SMP's. Linux
> does, albeit not extraordinarily well.

	As of last month there was a bootable Kernal for the Sparc
64's. NetBSD runs on the older machines pretty well. (I run it on a Sparc
10 and a 20,) but no SMP yet... :(

	Rick



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