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From: kpneal@interpath.com (Kevin P. Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Q> netBSD or Linux for old Sparcs?
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 96 21:54:02 GMT
Organization: It's a Bedroom--Not A Lab
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In article <4t3215$7c3@Germany.EU.net>, jh@Germany.EU.net (Joerg Heitkoetter) wrote:
>
>
>Hi there,
>
>the subject line says it all; we want to make use of our old Sun
>Sparcs, but don't want to downgrade to Slowlaris 2.5, so the path to
>go is either netBSD or Linux for Sparcs. Any opinions which one's
>"better"? (for arbitrary values of "better".. ;-)
>

NetBSD.

Where "better" equals "more mature implementation on the hardware".

See also:
preference_personal

(a better answer would be: What do you want to do with the machines?
but I don't want to open that can of worms).

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