Sparc Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Robert L. Harris
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

RE: Sparc Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Chapman, Matt
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 -Original Message- From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday

Re: Sparc Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
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

Re: Sparc Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Robert L. Harris
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

Re: Sparc Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Noah Meyerhans
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

Re: Sparc Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Ben Collins
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

Re: Sparc Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Thomas Hallaran
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

Re: Sparc Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Nathan E Norman
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