Subject: Re: changing to NetBSD, still not quite sure... :-/
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/29/2007 16:13:29
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:47:20 -0400 Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Forgot something... :-)
> You could then detemine if everything you want to put on a desktop is
> available on one OS in both amd64 and Sparc64 (including the ability to
> run i386 Firefox with Flash) [or is there a Sparc64 flashplayer?].
Yes, there is a flash player for sparc(64). However, it's for Solaris.
Since NetBSD hat a Solaris wrapper, there should be ways of making this
work. But since Firefox didn't work on NetBSD/sparc64 until recently, this
is probably rather untested.
Regards
Chris