[SunHELP] os for ultra-1

[Scott Walker]

Actually Linux/*BSD's all run quite well now on sparc hardware.

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
| Sun, 07 May 2006 @ 13:26 -0600, Arthur Wouk said:
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|> i have an ultra-1E 200mhs cpu, 1 gig ram, adequate disk space running
|> solaris 9.
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|> i would like to speed it up a bit, if that is possible, by going to
|> either a free/open/... bsd or a linux/sparc os.
|>
|> anyone gotten much improvement this way?
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| NetBSD is how I would go.  Fast, reliable, and useful features.
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| Linux is OK, but would not be my choice for sparc.  It used to run
| rather poorly on sparc, but might be better now.
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| OpenBSD would run OK, but generally isn't as fast as NetBSD, and has
usually
| lagged in features. It should be reliable.
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| I can't think of anything else that I would bother with.
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