Subject: Re: marketing NetBSD to the old SunOS crowd
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: john <zaph0d@sweb.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/01/1999 14:27:05
Although it sounds lame, the main reason i'm using Solaris currently is
due to the fact I have a Sparcstation 20 and like listening to music..

I'm also adding another cpu in the near future..

Otherwise, NetBSD rocked.


On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> > 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
>