On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:25:36 +0100 David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 13:00, John WHITE wrote: > > Afternoon all, > > Can I preface this post by saying I am new to sparc and have only dabbled > > in installing Debian (although I have been building PC's for >9yrs and > > using flavours of linux for 7 yrs). I installed Solaris 10 on my Ultra5 and > > then though it fun to install Debian - which went fine -no problems there. > > Linux seemed to run faster but of course the current stable version is > > fairly 'old'. What is he current availability of newer or unstable packages > > - is there quite a comprehensive selection? Can I (or how do I/do I have > > to) compile packages for sparc (I have done this for i386)? Any other > > gotchas?? > > Pl remember I am new to Debian/SPARC and > > > > A new version of Debian was released yesterday which is MUCH more up-to-date. > You should be able to upgrade to it simply by running 'apt-get update && > apt-get dist-upgrade'. > > You can compile stuff on SPARC just like you can on x86, but you probably > won't need to - most of the software you'll ever need is available within > Debian. Hi, tried this but was getting 404 errors when trying to connect to http://security.debian.org for some reason. Has anyone else gotten this error at all either today or recently? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
