There are more factors to what OS you want to run other than if it was written specifically for the hardware you are using. With Solaris's security record, I wouldn't personally want to run it on any server that the Internet can touch if I can help it. That and developing an OS on as many platforms as possible can help discover bugs in the core OS that may not have been discovered if it was only on x86 arch. The only time I'd run Solaris is if it's on some multi-processor Sun enterprise server, which OpenBSD is incapable of running on anyways. That and I know OpenBSD a lot better than I know Solaris, so I personally could admin OpenBSD on a SPARC better than I could Solaris on a SPARC. But this is just my personal preference, trying to explain why someone would want to run OpenBSD on a SPARC when there is an OS written for SPARC hardware specifically.
Jason On 6/2/05, mdff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2 Xavier Beaudouin: > >I have tried a qfe pci (with 4 hme chips), double fxp cards and single fxp > >ones. All are correctly detected, but when trying to send a packet to any > >NIC, packet don't reach networks. > > >Seems that the PCI port on such machine is more or less buggy... > > maybe it's not the machine hw but openbsd? i ran 36 sun-servers > of this class with qfe-nic's and they worked very well. network > redundancy and failover was also working perfectly. redundant > servers taking over sessions, double wired VLANs etc...) under > solaris8. > > did you upgrade your firmware(s)? this sometimes helped me with > sun-servers (just talking 'bout solaris, never had obsd on them) > > /off the records/ > anyway... i wonder, why one want's to run obsd on a machine, if > there is an os written for this type of hw... if i had to choose > between any other os and solaris on a sun-sparc, i always would > run solaris... make's sense, doesn't it?
