Joshua Uziel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Another question... Are there any Package disadvantages in using a >> Sparc over an Intel box using Debian? Is the same range of Debian >> software available for all CPU's? > > With the exception of non-free software... Adobe Acrobat, etc., it's > pretty much the same. Besides the occasional bug of something that > needs something like an endian or byte-alignment fix (getting more and > more rare these days), the only issue I see is that Debian/SPARC is > compiled for the lowest common denominator... the sun4c/sparcv7 systems. > Those don't have the integer multiply and divide instructions... the > only place I've noticed it is in using sshd, as it uses libssl (which > apparently does a lot of integer multiplication and/or division). For > the most part, fortunately, this won't be much of an issue. on my SS10, SSH v2 take nearly 30secs before prompting for password (at debug1: expecting SSH2_G_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY), SSH v1 take less than 1 second. cpu : Texas Instruments, Inc. - SuperSparc-(II) fpu : SuperSparc on-chip FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 2 prom : 2.25 type : sun4m ncpus probed : 2 ncpus active : 2 Cpu0Bogo : 74.75 Cpu1Bogo : 74.95 U type : TI Viking/CC contexts : 65536 nocache total : 1048576 nocache used : 477952 CPU0 : online CPU1 : online -- Fabien Seisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG ID 1024D/112189D8 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
