OpenBSD Sparc64 on Sunfire V120

OpenBSD works amazingly well on "our" new SunFire V100 hardware.

With my pre-existing netboot buildout, doing a network installation on the SunFire was quick and easy -- faster than the Solaris network installation, if not quite as self-completing as my "fire and forget" firewall build boot :)

There are a number of security enhancements inherent in OpenBSD by which we can justify this admittedly unusual choice of operating system for DNS and other specialized applications where security is more important than "normalization"

Kevin


(P.S. FreeBSD 5.0 for Sparc64 supports most of the same modern Solaris systems as OpenBSD (Oddly, no Ultra-2 SCSI support, but FreeBSD does work on E220/E250) and offers SMP support for systems that have multiple CPUs)