Evening all,
I know we have some BSD users out there, so I have a few questions
for you.
First some background. Most of my Un*x experience falls with the
following flavors: HP-UX, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, Mandrake, and RedHat. With
the exception of the Linux variants and HP-UX, most of my experience is
limited to basic admin knowledge (e.g. I have not gone through setting
up a complete machine from start to finish). I can usually manage to
fight my way through most things with enough time and determination.
Now to my questions. Recently I have acquired several Sun Sparc (32)
machines (IPXs, 5s, & 10s) and am looking to put a OS on them that is 1)
Free/Inexpensive, 2) Fairly easy to install, & 3) is fairly complete. I
have looked through the offerings from the Linux community in regard to
the sparc platform and I am not impressed. I do know that OpenBSD offers
a sparc port and my question is how is their install process? How
different am I going to find OpenBSD as compared to the other flavors of
Un*x that are out there? Can I download Iso images for the cds anywhere?
Does OpenBSD come with any firewall/proxy abilities? Any other comments?
Thanks
Garl
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