[rescue] Sun IPC

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jan 8 11:04:15 CST 2002


On January 8, Eric Dittman wrote:
> I have a couple of Sun IPC boxes.  I know Solaris is too slow
> on them, but what about *BSD?  I seem to remember reading some-
> thing about Linux not being supported very well on the IPC (or
> it may have been all the 4c-based systems), so that's out.

  NetBSD & OpenBSD are nice and smooth on older SPARCs.  Their
efficiency makes them quite usable on such hardware, and the stability
is unmatched.  I'd say go ahead and give it a shot.

      -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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