Subject: Re: What recent Sun Hardware runs NetBSD+X?
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 03/21/2005 12:17:20
> What recent Sun hardware runs NetBSD+X good enough to act as
> demonstration hardware for NetBSD (and pkgsrc, etc.)?  Preferably
> without lots of fiddling with custom software (kernel, X, ...)
> first... :)

And while you're wishing... :-)

You don't say why it has to be *recent* Sun hardware, so I have to
wonder if a U1/U2 or maybe a pre-sparc64 box would do.  They certainly
work just fine for me; the recent mania for hardware capable of running
recent bloatware has produced a perception that they're too slow to be
useful, which as far as I can tell is illusory.  They do still do
everything they ever did, after all.

If what you're trying to show off is how well NetBSD runs on recent Sun
hardware (as a propaganda effort, say), then of course it's pointless
to consider an older box.  But if you just want something with the Sun
logo on the front....

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