I know RedHat has a Sparc distrib, I've tried it on a couple of different
Sun boxes. One was an old 380, and Linux ran like dung on that one (no MMU
I think). The other was a SparcServer 10 and Linux was very, very nice on
this box; it seemed quite a bit faster than Solaris. There used to be a
distrib for UltraSparcs called UltraPenguin, but I don't know if it's still
in development as I think it was merged into RedHat's distribution. OTOH,
there's nothing wrong with Solaris except for the rather high license fees
for commercial use. If you download all the GNU stuff, you can actually get
a workable system out the other end.
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Lee the B
TTU Physics <sucks>
> Hi all,
> My boss wants to move our largest servers over to Sun Solaris on the
Sparc. I'm not to keen on this as Linux has been so
> very good to us for three years now.
> Is there a distrobution that will run linux on the Sparc environment? If
so how does it compare to solaris?
