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I wonder how well NetBSD would run on it. There're quite a lot of current packages for it:

https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/sparc64/10...

When I was looking for a not-Solaris OS, OpenBSD was the only game in town for it. Literally. Somebody maintaining the UltraSPARC OpenBSD port decided to support this oddity specifically. Nothing else, including NetBSD, would work.

Probably not especially difficult to port the platform-specific bits from OpenBSD to NetBSD, but also not trivial.

A lot of the "wow, this actually Just Works on OpenBSD!" support is because one or more OpenBSD developer actually runs the given system. Supposedly that's why there's really good support for a large number of laptop peculiarities that NetBSD lacks -- OpenBSD devs are actually dailying OpenBSD on those machines.

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