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RE: [PLUG] Which distro for non-intel machines
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Ok, so, I was able to get 2 of the machines up and running with Debian for
the Sparc. Well, more or less. I was wondering if anyone knows how to get
the mouse to work right. The machine is an Ultra 5 (and the mouse is
plugged in through the keyboard).
I know I'm missing an option somewhere, but, I was unable to find it even on
google.
I might just have the wrong mouse device. Other than that, it all appears
to be working properly from the debian config tool that set it all up.
no luck yet with getting my netbsd disc to boot. I looked at gentoo, but,
they were still in beta for the sparc, so, I wanted to try Debian first.
Luckily, no one really uses these machines right now. :)
thanks
-brad
-----Original Message-----
From: Noah Silva
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Sent: 11/5/02 8:24 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Which distro for non-intel machines
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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