Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Also, with a Sparc 20 try to load a copy of Solaris 2.6 rather than a later copy, it will run faster and Sun still releases patches for it. Hmm, I don't know if that's worth it. I run Solaris 9 on an SS20 (2x 60MHz SM61, 224MB RAM) and am very satisfied with its performance. I have run Solaris 2.5.1 aswell as 7, 8 and 9 on various SS5 (all 110mhz MicroSparc, ~128mb RAM average), and Solaris 9 seemed to me to be the best performing system on that old hardware (of course it always pays to disable some of the crud that it normally starts at boot, but that holds for all SunOSen). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthias Buelow Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Sun SPARC 20 collecting dust, and I was wondering if any version of FreeBSD would run on my Sun SPARC 20? From what I can gather FreeBSD only works on UltraSPARC. Maybe not FreeBSD but both NetBSD and Solaris work very well on the Sparc 20, and they're available for free. (Well, actually if your SS20 has more than one CPU, you'd have to get a commercial license for Solaris 9, and shouldn't use the free license, since that's only for one CPU but I mean, it's hardly stealing candies from little children, is it... and reportedly Solaris 10 will be open source anyways, so what.) Sun used to give out free licenses for up to 4 cpu's. He may have registered for one of these back when they were giving them out. Even if not the Solaris license nowadays is only a couple hundred bucks, much less than Microsoft XP Server. Also, with a Sparc 20 try to load a copy of Solaris 2.6 rather than a later copy, it will run faster and Sun still releases patches for it. Ted ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20
I've got a Sun SPARC 20 collecting dust, and I was wondering if any version of FreeBSD would run on my Sun SPARC 20? From what I can gather FreeBSD only works on UltraSPARC. Thanks again, MIke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Sun SPARC 20 collecting dust, and I was wondering if any version of FreeBSD would run on my Sun SPARC 20? From what I can gather FreeBSD only works on UltraSPARC. Maybe not FreeBSD but both NetBSD and Solaris work very well on the Sparc 20, and they're available for free. (Well, actually if your SS20 has more than one CPU, you'd have to get a commercial license for Solaris 9, and shouldn't use the free license, since that's only for one CPU but I mean, it's hardly stealing candies from little children, is it... and reportedly Solaris 10 will be open source anyways, so what.) mkb. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Sun SPARC 20 collecting dust, and I was wondering if any version of FreeBSD would run on my Sun SPARC 20? From what I can gather FreeBSD only works on UltraSPARC. The SS20 isn't an UltraSPARC, so it won't be supported by FreeBSD's Sparc64 port. I've had good luck running NetBSD on an SS20, and IPCs and IPXs, though. -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
