Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc

[Time <time@clockbot.net>]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:07:07PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:07:07 -0400
> From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc
> Mail-Followup-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 04:40:05PM -0400, Time wrote:
> > I use a Sparc Ultra5 here at the lab for development using Debian's
> > Woody distro/version. I'm so happy with it I was looking to purchase one
> > to do my gateway/firewall serving at our apartment. I'd suggest checking
> > Ebay and computer trade shows that come around.
> 
> Does Debian run that machine in 64-bit mode yet?

The kernel runs in 64 bit mode if I understand what I've read correctly,
but the user runs programs in 32 bit mode to avoid unnecessary overhead.
Most of this I don't understand as I'm not a Debian developer, I just
really like the fact that what Debian gives you for sparc is very
friendly and with apt-get it makes installation of difficult to find
libs, packages, etc simple and smooth. 8)

My favorite example is tclreadline(n), which I like to use in tcl/tk
development so my .tclshrc runs with all the yummie bash-like features.



Regards,

Time



   13

   \
9   .  3   clockbot.net
   /

    6

Attachment: pgp2Fk4MRv2DS.pgp
Description: PGP signature