Subject: Re: marketing NetBSD to the old SunOS crowd
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Weisberg <jaw@Op.Net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/01/1999 18:49:59
| 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.
| 
| So, if we were going to put together an article/web page/etc that compares
| and contrasts SunOS 4.1.4 (the last one, AFAIK) and NetBSD 1.4.1, what
| would we say? How are we better?


well, I run a mix of SunOS 4.1.4 and NetBSD boxen. There are basically
2 reasons that NetBSD isn't on all of them:

    I really like my multi-processor boxes.
    (the NetBSD mirror at ftp.op.net is a dual hypersparc)

    NFS locking (rpc.lockd)


	--jeff