On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 08:40:55PM -0800, Garl R. Grigsby wrote: > >Evening all, > I know we have some BSD users out there, so I have a few questions >for you. > First some background. Most of my Un*x experience falls with the >following flavors: HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, Mandrake, and RedHat. With >the exception of the Linux variants and HP-UX, most of my experience is >limited to basic admin knowledge (e.g. I have not gone through setting >up a complete machine from start to finish). I can usually manage to >fight my way through most things with enough time and determination. > Now to my questions. Recently I have acquired several Sun Sparc (32) >machines (IPXs, 5s, & 10s) and am looking to put a OS on them that is 1) >Free/Inexpensive, 2) Fairly easy to install, & 3) is fairly complete. I >have looked through the offerings from the Linux community in regard to >the sparc platform and I am not impressed. I do know that OpenBSD offers >a sparc port and my question is how is their install process? How >different am I going to find OpenBSD as compared to the other flavors of >Un*x that are out there? Can I download Iso images for the cds anywhere? >Does OpenBSD come with any firewall/proxy abilities? Any other comments? > Well, OpenBSD is not terribly different from other BSDs; i haven't worked with H-PUX, so i don't know how it stacks up to modern BSDs. The install process is pretty straightforward. OpenBSD comes with some nice firewalling and proxying capabilities; that is one of OpenBSD's main uses in the field. Note that support for Sparcs is still a bit rough, see http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html -- Yes, we ARE a bunch of anal, short-tempered, quick to fly-off-the-handle, sarcastic, know-it-alls. That's what running networks does to you. - James Fischer on inet-access
