Sun CD-ROM problems

Wed Nov 27 04:46:50 PST 2002

>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 22:09:28 -0800
>From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>

>(The remark about FreeBSD being newly functional on SPARC is duly noted.
>I may have to revise my remarks, if it's now in a usable state.)

Note that FreeBSD's SPARC support is strictly for sparc64.

It boots and appears to self-host.  I have access to at least one such
system, though I've never seen it:

panther(5.0-C)[1] uname -a
FreeBSD panther.freebsd.org 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #15: Tue Nov 12 20:16:48 PST 2002     peter at panther.freebsd.org:/s/src/sys/sparc64/compile/PANTHER  sparc64
panther(5.0-C)[2] 

Note that the sparc64 support is only in FreeBSD 5-CURRENT at this point.
FreeBSD 5-CURRENT is (as of his writing) approaching release of 5.0,
with a target expected to be within a few weeks (or less).

Note further that 5.0 is expected to be usable, but have some rough
edges, and is not recommended for mission-critical workloads (as I
understand things).

That said, there's a lot of new functionality in FreeBSD 5, including
quite a bit from the TrustedBSD effort.

Cheers,
david       (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
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David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
I have no confidence in results obtained through the use of Microsoft products.