Subject: Re: NetBSD Questions
To: Kelley Law <kelleyl@adelphia.net>
From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@iosystems.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/08/2002 13:10:15
Kelley Law wrote:
> 3. I have a Sparc LX running RedHat 6.2. It is setup as a in-house mp3
> server. Would I see a performance increase by switching to NetBSD? The
> machine consists of 96 megs or ram, 24bit Sbus framebuffer, 1GB
> internal, 2GB external.
Note that 24bit framebuffer support isn't as complete in NetBSD as it is
in SparcLinux. Check the supported hardware on the Sparc section of the
NetBSD site to make sure. I use a "Leo" framebuffer, and this is not
supported, although this may just be for X as OpenBSD did happily boot.
Chris
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