[dundee] which BSD?

Andrew Clayton dundee at lists.lug.org.uk
Mon Sep 8 19:00:02 2003


On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 18:48, Simon Wells wrote:
> I have acquired a couple of sparcstations and it has been suggested 
> that I run a variant of BSD on them. Having checked around there seem 
> to be three main distributions, Free, Open and Net. Does anybody have a 
> suggestion for which I should install as I am unsure about the various 
> strengths and weaknesses.

If they are sparc32's then any 2.2 (kernel, SPARC32 support in 2.4 is a
bit of mess) based Linux SPARC distro should be fine, probably Debian
would give the best support.

If you want to use BSD, probably NetBSD will give the best support.


> 
> cheers, Simon
> 


Andrew