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As Gabriel mentioned, it should work. I did a quick peak on Sun's website
and I couldn't find the supported systems list for Solaris, but I believe
that the LX was on the list when I looked at the list when 9 first
came out. As far as performance goes, I don't know how much better Linux
or NetBSD will be, but I'm sure that no matter what you use, anything
involving X will be slow.
Talking about SPARCs, does anyone have a recommendation on what distro of
Linux to run on a SPARC 5? In the last few years, I have mostly ran Red
Hat on x86, and recently have been running Yellow Dog on my iBook. Since
neither of them have a SPARC version (anymore), I need to try something
else. I have a small collection (four) of SPARC 5's and at least one of
them should have Linux on it.
BTW: An LX was the first machine I learned Solaris (or any *nix on for
that matter), so I have some fond memories of the LX :-). One of these
days I'll have to pick up a used one to go with my Sparc 5's.
Ed C.
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:21:33PM +0000, Michael Lazin wrote:
> > There has been a lot of discussion on this list about sparc so I thought
> > I'd pose this question. Can you install Solaris 9 on an old 50mhz sparc LX
> > clone with 64 megs of ram and a 4 gig hard drive?
>
> You should be able to, though I haven't tried. You certainly won't
> be able to do the 64-bit installation (that's not a 64-bit chip).
>
> You're *very* likely to get better performance out of Linux or (who
> saw this one coming?) NetBSD, though.
>
> --
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
>
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