FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20

[Heinrich Rebehn]

Skylar Thompson wrote:
> madden at cms-stl.com wrote:
> 
>> I've got a Sun SPARC 20 collecting dust, and I was wondering if any
>> version of FreeBSD would run on my Sun SPARC 20? From what I can gather
>> FreeBSD only works on UltraSPARC.
>>  
>>
> 
> The SS20 isn't an UltraSPARC, so it won't be supported by FreeBSD's 
> Sparc64 port. I've had good luck running NetBSD on an SS20, and IPCs and 
> IPXs, though.
> 
Same with OpenBSD on SS5, which is the same architecture as SS20. I use 
old SS5's as loghosts and FlexLM license hosts under OpenBSD.

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