Erik E. Fair said:

>We have the advantage of not having those pressures. However, our 
>labor pool is entirely volunteer, generally cannot work full time on 
>NetBSD, and just try to get a software engineer to deal with a 
>problem he's doesn't care for during his time off from work...

When all is said and done, the U5 which is www.rmkhome.com and ftp.rmkhome.com
has now been up:

tencats# uptime
 6:16PM  up 81 days, 21 hrs, 3 users, load averages: 0.10, 0.09, 0.08

tencats# uname -a
NetBSD tencats 2.0_BETA NetBSD 2.0_BETA (TENCATS) #4: Wed Jul 28 18:59:40 MDT 2004  rmk@sidewinder:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/TENCATS sparc64

This latest kernel has the sleep-sleeps-forever patch. When the box was running
1.6.2, it's longest uptime was about 80 days.

I'm using a Symbios Logic 53c875, rather than the Sun slow IDE controller.

I'd like to have a similar U5 with working X that I could use as my main
display system. (fvwm and a lot of xterm windows)
-- 
Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com