A couple of us are playing with Linux on Sparc. It's supposed to be
rather nice.
We're currently playing with the Suse version because the guy who
started this heard the debian version doesn't work on anything better
than a Clasic very well.
Anyone running Potatoe or Woody on a
Title: RE: Sparc Linux?
For awhile I did successfully have an E450 with 2gig ram and 4 400mhz cpu's running potato then woody... it flew.
Due to software needs it now runs Solaris 8... :(
-matt
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From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:37:35PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
A couple of us are playing with Linux on Sparc. It's supposed to be
rather nice.
It is.
We're currently playing with the Suse version because the guy who
started this heard the debian version doesn't work on anything
Linux (yes, I know, we're hurd, too, don't nitpick!) so I don't see how
Linux would work better if Suse's distribution was running on top of it
than if Debian's distribution is running on top of it.
What if something like apache had a VERY old version for sparc linux where
suse had an up to date
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 02:06:05PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
What if something like apache had a VERY old version for sparc linux where
suse had an up to date, patched package? I think that was the main
issue.
Well, it is definitely true that some SPARC support has improved since
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:37:35PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
A couple of us are playing with Linux on Sparc. It's supposed to be
rather nice.
We're currently playing with the Suse version because the guy who
started this heard the debian version doesn't work on anything
Just curious what specifically in the debian sparc distro would POSSIBLY
make it unusable on anything better than a classic while suse runs great
on 64 bit machines. Rc scripts not optimized for 64 bit? the kernel is the
kernel is the kernel.
Tom Hallaran
Informatics
Washington University Genome
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:37:35PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote:
We're currently playing with the Suse version because the guy who
started this heard the debian version doesn't work on anything better
than a Clasic very well.
Now that IBM are playing nice(r), this may be the first glimpse
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