> I would be very curious as to some opinions on whether the sparc port is 
> generally considered to be stable enough to be run in a commercial 
> environment on an SS4.

While I can't speak to the question of whether NetBSD is stable on an
SS4, i'd think carefully about your stability requirements before
deciding about NetBSD, in general.

In particular, NetBSD has ... a couple of serious, annoying problems
which may cause problems for you depending on your environment.  In
that class, I include:

	(1) the "paged shadow objects not pruned until parent exit"
	    problem that people seem to like to call a "swap leak"
	    even though it technically isn't,

	(2) the fact that if you allocate and touch (RAM+swap) bytes
	    of memory, the system will hang.

If you know and understand the load of your system, NetBSD may very
well be a good choice for you.  If the load on your system is
unpredictable (e.g. users, potentially running programs which could
trigger (2) above), then you might think twice about it.


chris