Subject: Re: Difference sun3x and sparc port
To: Ijsbrand Wijnands <iwijnand@cisco.com>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/05/1998 11:11:07
> I am in the process of installing NETBSD on a sparc classic.  I see
> there are 2 distributions, a sun3x and a sparc.  Which of the 2
> should I take?

The sparc, because you have a SPARC, not a Sun-3-anything.  (The sun3x
distribution is for the sun3x machines, some of the last of the
680x0-based Suns.  The best known is probably the -3/80, which is
visually very similar to a SPARCStation 1 or 1+ - approximately the
same box, in particular.)

> Maybe an other stupid questions, but what is the difference between
> OpenBSD and NetBSD?

Most briefly, a few letters in the name, a lot of politics, and a while
(a year? two? I forget) of codebase divergence.

					der Mouse

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