On Saturday,  8 April 2000 at 15:51:38 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:51:56PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
>> Don't look now, but they're gaining.  AFAIK no BSD (and that includes
>> BSD/OS) runs on PCI bus SPARC machines.  Linux does.  A few weeks ago
>> I was going to demonstrate a BSD install for some Linux users I know,
>> but all they had was an Ultra 5, and so I couldn't do it.  Work is
>> needed.
>
> I'd say they didn't chose the rigth machine.

You want them to take an older machine?  AFAIK all modern SPARCs have
a PCI bus.

> The only reason I still buy Suns is to run Solaris (because of
> commercial Apps). Otherwise, there are better and cheaper machines
> available (PCs, powermac and alphas).

Possibly, but the issue at hand was whether Linux supports as much
hardware as NetBSD.

On Saturday,  8 April 2000 at 18:53:27 +0200, Thomas Michael Wanka wrote:
> On 8 Apr 2000, at 15:51, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
>> I'd say they didn't chose the rigth machine. The only reason I still
>> buy Suns is to run Solaris (because of commercial Apps). Otherwise,
>> there are better and cheaper machines available (PCs, powermac and
>> alphas).
>
> Does Solaris for i386 not perform well or is there any other reason
> to go for the sparc?

We weren't talking Solaris, we were talking NetBSD.  I had wanted to
demonstrate an install.

Greg
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