| gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 9 Jan 2003 11:13:06 -0500 |
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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 10:49:48AM -0500, Edward M. Corrado wrote: > 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. I say that because Linux and NetBSD are both tuned, these days, to perform well on lower-end machines (though both are bloating in nasty ways) and it's *far* easier to make yourself a tight kernel (in that you actually have the source) with only the hardware devices you have and use loaded. > 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. Debian will almost definitely be this mailing lists recommendation. :^> -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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