On 9 Jul, Jeffrey S. Sharp wrote:
> I have just acquired a Sparcserver 490,
Uhhh, that is a really nice machine. Only the SMP 670 / 690 is superior
to this beast.
> Can someone point me to a place where I can learn more about it?
NetBSD port-sparc mailing list?
http://www.sunhelp.org
> I've got a sneaky suspicion that I can run Linux or NetBSD on it.
> What of it?
Na, Linux. That PC wanabe Unix bastard on such a sophisticated piece of
hardware - that is a sacrilege. ;-)
[Please no flame war, note the ^^^ ]
Some recent version (maybe 1.5, at least -current) of NetBSD will run on
that beast, but the best choice would be SunOs 4.1.3 That is the OS
this machine was build for. Is is a decent 4.2BSD UNIX derivate with
4.3BSD and SysV enhancements.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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Received on Mon Jul 09 2001 - 13:13:20 BST