On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:56:09AM +0100, Piotr Stolc wrote:
> Hello!
> I have an UltraSPARC machine with Solaris 8 installed, but I want to switch
> it to NetBSD. As I'm not familiar with this architecture, I have a few
> questions:
> 
> 1. Is NetBSD/sparc64 stable enough to use it on quite important machine?

I've not had much luck with 1.6 release.  Others have had better luck
with current snapshots (but I have not tried it).  But of course,
you shouldn't be running current on an "important machine."

> 2. How does it's performance look like, in comparision with Solaris?

while my machine was up (it would hang intermittently and unpredictably),
I was quite pleased with the performance...

> 3. Can I have more than one virtual terminal? I've read in maillist archive
> that X will not run on this.

correct.  No X.  But you should be able to run as many 
vty's as you need (depending on memeory).

> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> My machine identifies as:
> 
> # uname -a

Regards,
Sam