On Sat, 05 Sep 1998, J T Gill wrote:
>Hi, I've been thinking of buying a sparc (probably about LX or so, or
>slow S5) and was planning to run NetBSD on it.  I was wondering though,
>is the netbsd/sparc very well supported, i.e., would I be able to find
>stuff for it, and is the development environment good enough to allow
>me to compile stuff fairly easily?  Would I be able to run netscape with java,
>say? (Not really too worried about the speed)  Thanks

  I compile miscellaneous stuff under NetBSD/sparc all the time.  Most things
build out-of-the-box, but when they don't, the changes required are usually
trivial.

  Speed-wise, an LX is very usable if you have enough memory, like 32mb or so
at least.


                                 -Dave McGuire