[rescue] OpenBSD

R. Lonstein rlonstein at pobox.com
Mon Jan 28 09:12:57 CST 2002


On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:54:32PM -0500, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
    [snip]
> When I get my Ultra1, I plan to give OpenBSD/sparc64 a
> try. NetBSD-current is supposed to be considered stable,
> if I read the pages. That might be my second try, but the
> virtually secure by default bit appeals to me.

OpenBSD/sparc64 works great for me. Framebuffer support was flakey in
3.0-release but is supposedly getting better in current. I haven't
checked as I'm using serial console.

> Of course, a lot depends on software compatibility, since
> it is important to me to be able to use a good common lisp
> (like clisp, but could use other) and a good r5s5 scheme
> on it (possible scheme48 or scm). We shall see.

In the ports tree are:
    ANSI Common LISP http://clisp.cons.org/
    Scheme R5 http://swissnet.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/SCM.html

The first won't build on Sparc64 or PowerPC. The second will.

- Ross



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