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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SPARC operating systems (was Re: Why to not buy Matrox Millennium) Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 02:33:33 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <316A2EEC.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> References: <4jn4qp$6p@darkstar.my.lan> <4jve3t$cfe@hermes.synopsys.com> <4k0m0f$68j@hoopoe.psc.edu> <4k2i4g$n55@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu> <4k33jr$khp@hoopoe.psc.edu> <s8g2afwrth.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> <4kaplk$61g@skate.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Iain Hibbert <plunky@skate.demon.co.uk> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:20918 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:506 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3063 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2839 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16925 Iain Hibbert wrote: > what state is the Linux SPARC port in, anyway, has it reached a > release state yet? (any news on FreeBSD?) The FreeBSD project has currently dropped its SPARC port, even though it kinda worked and was certainly capable of being turned into a real release, due to general lack of time and interest. This is not to say that such a thing wouldn't be useful to some people, but there are only so many hours in the day and for us to add value to the SPARC/BSD world (which isn't already provided by NetBSD) would take quite a bit of effort. At the minimum it would be necessary for us to provide "install from scratch" functionality as well as a boot CD for installation from CDROM. Lots of work, very little return in comparison to what the same amount of effort invested in the Intel platform buys us. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project