[geeks] AOpen makes SPARC notebooks?

Dave Fischer dave at cca.org
Sat Mar 25 00:58:52 CST 2006


phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net writes:

>I tried FreeBSD on one of my Sparcs, only to find that none of the
>available terminal types for the installer would work on a Sun console.
> Since I didn't have a serial-console cable at the time or a machine I
>could usefully connect one to, that pretty much ruled out using FreeBSD
>on that machine.  OpenBSD, however, Just Worked.

Has anyone here run any BSD on a Sun Ex500 or similar machine?
Wondering if it's a reasonable alternative yet.

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