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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!not-for-mail From: bouyer@chassiron.ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Q> netBSD or Linux for old Sparcs? Date: 31 Jul 1996 13:06:01 GMT Organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees (ENSTA), Paris Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4tnlnp$4n@ici-paris.ensta.fr> References: <4t3215$7c3@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: chassiron.ensta.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: jh@Germany.EU.net X-Newsreader: Newsview 0.38 (pre-beta) Joerg Heitkoetter (jh@Germany.EU.net) 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".. ;-) > I'm running NetBSD on a sparc IPC and ELC, and I am really happy with it. As a kernel hacker, I prefer NetBSD, because the source code is clearer to me. Also it seems that NetBSD's network code is better in some cases. NetBSD can also read SunOS and Solaris partitions, and run most of SunOS and Solaris binaries. (I can even run wabi on my IPC). Don't know if Linux can do that. But all that really depend on what you want to do with this machine. -- Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris email: bouyer@ensta.fr --