On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 06:14:32PM +0800, GNU Linux wrote: > Hello all, > > How mature is the Debian GNU/Linux for 64bit SPARC Machines? Our office > bought SunFire 280R > <http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/280r/sun280r_serverdatasheet.pdf> with > 2 UltraSPARC III Cu 900Mhz SuperScalar SPARC V9 processors and 4GB RAM > intended for my mail server project that I'll administer soon but I'm > afraid to use Solaris 8 or probably Solaris 9 for this purpose because I > don't have any experience with Solaris OS. I'm thinking of using > GNU/Linux and I think Debian would be the best distribution for SPARC > machines. But I'm actually a Mandrake Linux user. I'm just afraid I > can't use the tools that I usually use in my Mandrake Linux machines if > I'll use Solaris 8 or 9.
Debian woody should work on 280R. Hopefully others can confirm that. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
