Re: [PLUG] OT Sparc

[Chris Hedemark <chris@yonderway.com>]

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On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 10:49 AM, 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.

Not enough memory on that box though.

> Talking about SPARCs, does anyone have a recommendation on what distro 
> of
> Linux to run on a SPARC 5?

Aurora.

> 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.

Aurora is unofficially Red Hat 7.3 for sparc.  It's lead developer (Tom 
"Spot" Callaway) does this on Red Hat time at Red Hat's office in 
Raleigh.  A couple of other Red Hatters chip in, though I don't know 
how much credit they want.  They just got like 8-12 more machines from 
me last week for this project.  Right now the goal is to have rock 
solid stability against RH 7.3 source, and the long term goal is to 
match Red Hat's current stable release tree.  The 7.3 version has been 
very very good now for awhile.  Unlike the *BSD's, it works well with 
multiple CPU's.

Chris Hedemark .. Hillsborough, NC .. http://yonderway.com
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