Subject: Re: marketing NetBSD to the old SunOS crowd
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@clock.org>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/01/1999 12:24:48
> I was looking at the SETI@Home statistics today and noticed a high number
> of SunOS systems participating, and the thought struck me - why aren't
> these people running NetBSD instead? We're better, right? Modern TCP/IP
> stack, 64-bit clean FFS, and so on. I bet they're just not aware of us.
>
Some of the reasons many people still use 4.1.4 is, for example:
- NetBSD support for hardware is missing (4/400, prestoserve etc...)
- NetBSD can't use multiCPU machines at all.
The above two gives in turn that all machines on a place stays with
4.1.4, to have the same OS on all machines.
-- Ragge