On Sun, 21 May 2000, John Grange wrote:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>
> > "Guy T. Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > On Sat, 20 May 2000, John Grange wrote:
> > > > anyone have any luck installing mandrake on a sparc ipx box?
> > >
> > > There's a Mandrake distribution for 32-bit SPARC machines? I thought they
> > > only had an UltraSPARC version. Also, isn't the IPX a sun4c machine? Linux
> > > does not handle these machines very well at all. You can install and run it,
> > > and it'll limp along, but it'll be *way* slower than NetBSD or OpenBSD.
> >
> > Sparc-32 is planned for 7.1 [afaik] but, for the moment, the sparc version
> > is an "usparc" version..
> >
> > --
> > Guillaume Cottenceau
>
> bsd is out of the question for Me, not a real bsd fan. ;) I am going to be using
> two ipx boxes for nothing but data servers, web server and firewall, no graphical.
> anyone have a recomindation? I am not sure what the boxes have yet, all I know is
> what I have read from the default specs on them.
Solaris, perhaps? If you're going to be *using* the boxes for anything at
all, I would recommend just about any OS other than Linux. Linux is not yet
ready for sun4c machines (like my IPC or your IPX's); unless you're a kernel
hacker working on fixing the bugs with the way Linux handles the sun4c MMU
hardware, you really shouldn't be installing Linux on a sun4c machine.
