Subject: Re: Community Issues ** LONG **
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@synap.ne.jp>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/22/1999 19:30:00
Ken Nakata wrote:
> >  > They have.  They're doing Alpha, and I think they did Sparc.
> > 
> > No, they have not done SPARC.
> 
> Just out of curiosity.  I've heard Sun has done a port of FreeBSD to
> SPARC.  Is it true?  When I heard it, I thought it was a shame they
> didn't just take NetBSD/sparc.  Would it be possible they didn't know
> any better than porting an OS when there's a perfectly fine OS already 
> running on their platform?

AFAIK FreeBSD/sparc is copy/clone of NetBSD/sparc.

I've heard Debian Linux folks got a few sparc64 machines from Sun,
but I may well be wrong.

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Jaromir Dolecek <dolecek@ics.muni.cz>      http://www.ics.muni.cz/~dolecek/
"The only way how to get rid temptation is to yield to it." -- Oscar Wilde