[SPARCbook] Which BSD, and will anyone ever do the pcmcia bridge?

[Koyote]

> I would be willing to stab at the driver if I could get my 3GX working
> again. I'm lacking an OS on it and don't have a copy of Solaris 2.6...
> 
> > Interestingly enough, I also have managed to get solaris 9 
> > running on a 3GX, though it lacks drivers for some 
> > subsystems. It may be worth some effort to work on that 
> > (video for starters)
> 
> I'm not convinced I follow you on that one really. I don't see what
> Solaris 9 offers, apart from having a considerably larger footprint
> (both disk and memory) and support for hardware that you probably can't
> fit in the 3GX anyhow.
> 
> Um pretty much everything you didn't like about linux then :)

Assuming what I don't like about linux is footprints, I could see
that. not really my complaint with linux, but I could see that both
would have larger footprints than bsd.

solaris 9 does, of course, offer full compatibility with solaris 9. It's
also quite snappy. :)


> 
> John
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