Re: [PLUG] Which distro for non-intel machines

[Noah Silva <nsilva@atari-source.com>]

Hi,

I use debian on sparc (and now and powerpc)

It's true that debian doesn't yet have the user-friendlyness of Redhat 8
or Suse 8.1 (or mandrake 9...) for the deaktop, but it's probably also
true that most non-intel platforms you might want to use are server type
systems, so probably you aren't as interested in the desktop-friendlyness
as much as the availability of packages and the stability of the system.

I assume Gentoo will run on anything linux supports, since it is from
source!  Debian will run on nearly anything linux supports, I have used it
on sparc, m68k (atari), x68k (mac), x86, and powerpc.  Yellow dog linux is
perhaps more popular on powerpc, but I use debian to keep things
consistant.  Also *BSD is work looking at.  NetBSD in particular will
support things you've never even heard of.

 -- noah silva

 On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Fred K Ollinger
wrote:

> > You are basically out of luck. Neither SPARC nor Alpha being supported
> > (new version ports) into the future unless Sun or HP respectively pays
> > for the ports. I had some fairly in depth discussions about the future
>
> Yes, they are. Look at www.kernel.org.
>
> > of non Intel architectures with the RedHat engineers on Sunday. They
> > basically confirmed what I was previously aware of from other vendors
> > -- both SPARC and Alpha have virtually zero commercial support other
> > than from their vendors. RedHat has no ports planned for either in the
> > future.
>
> Who cares?
>
> RedHat + Suse != linux
>
> Also, w/ source rpm, you could roll your own new rh distro for any
> supporte architecture that linux (the kernel) supports. Rpm source code is
> available and can be compiled.
>
> > supported it "better" in the past. However, no version of Linux runs
> > "well" on the Alpha, if you are looking for anything other than a
> > bare-bones operating system... sans environment. The biggest problem is
> > the lack of drivers for almost anything.
>
> ???
>
> > What this means is that in terms of support, you are basically on your
> > own.
>
> You are definately not on your own.
>
> Fred
>
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