FYI I have 3 sparc 10's all running dual or quad hypersparcs chugging along running Aurora 1, and the current aurora patches. In addition I have an IPX that while slow is happy to run Aurora too! While Ultra steals the thunder alot of the time, Aurora runs on, and is currently supporting 32 bit.
#more /var/log/dmesg
PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2
Linux version 2.4.22 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 1999
0314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #5 SMP Thu Sep 25 15:14:29 EDT 2003
ARCH: SUN4M
TYPE: Sun4m SparcStation10/20
Yes, I agree.... suse's sparc is "discontinued". But weren't people using RH 6.0 on the SPARC for years after they dropped it?
I found 178 patches in: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/sparc/update/7.3/patches.cont/ indluding: 10219 May 20 2003 glibc-31286
were there more available at an earlier date?
I did look at auroralinx.org but they don't seem too concerned with supporting the older 32 sparc bit machines either.
I'm not a "power sparc" user. I'm just looking to run a SPARC 20 (32 bit) as a headless backup server, name server and maybe a firewall to serve a small local network with a DSL connection. My bet is that Suse 7.x will serve me fine for this application. Right now I have 7.0 installed and it seems very promising.
I'm still not sure I really will need the 2.4 kernel but I do plan to try installing Suse 7.3 and maybe Debian 3.0. If everything works OK I'll probably stick with Suse since not sure I want to take the time to learn the "debian way" even though I'm sure its very good.
-Dave
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