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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news.sgi.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!pier2.bayarea.net!baygate.bayarea.net!thorpej From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Q> netBSD or Linux for old Sparcs? Date: 24 Jul 1996 20:03:50 GMT Organization: George's NetBSD answer man Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4t5vj6$4cm@pier2.bayarea.net> References: <4t3215$7c3@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: baygate.bayarea.net In article <4t3215$7c3@Germany.EU.net>, Joerg Heitkoetter <jh@Germany.EU.net> wrote: >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".. ;-) Personally, I prefer NetBSD/sparc. I use NetBSD on many platforms (x86, sparc, sun3, hp300, mvme147, etc.). I like the consistency and well-builtness of the system. I can run Solaris and SunOS applications. I guess if I'd been a Linux user, or something, I'd be fanatical about Linux. However, that is (thankfully) not the case, and I'm an extremely happy NetBSD user instead. -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@bayarea.net>