Subject: Re: NetBSD & Ultra-5_10
To: Piotr Stolc <socrtp@sedez.iq.pl>
From: Sam Tannous <stannous@cisco.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/19/2002 14:31:49
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:56:09AM +0100, Piotr Stolc wrote:
> Hello!
> I have an UltraSPARC machine with Solaris 8 installed, but I want to switch
> it to NetBSD. As I'm not familiar with this architecture, I have a few
> questions:
>
> 1. Is NetBSD/sparc64 stable enough to use it on quite important machine?
I've not had much luck with 1.6 release. Others have had better luck
with current snapshots (but I have not tried it). But of course,
you shouldn't be running current on an "important machine."
> 2. How does it's performance look like, in comparision with Solaris?
while my machine was up (it would hang intermittently and unpredictably),
I was quite pleased with the performance...
> 3. Can I have more than one virtual terminal? I've read in maillist archive
> that X will not run on this.
correct. No X. But you should be able to run as many
vty's as you need (depending on memeory).
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> My machine identifies as:
>
> # uname -a
Regards,
Sam