Hi,
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 06:42:50AM -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
Just curious...why would you want to run CentOS on a sparc system instead of Slowlaris? Or have I just answered my own question? 8-)
For me, as who is crunching this together, it's matter of challenging myself to see if i can pull yet another arch from my sleeve. Solaris would work better and propably even faster on hardware i do have, but for me, and some others too, it might be just a set of features available which is driving towards Linux/sparc. Unified set of packages (at least mostly) among working, familiar, package management.
I've been past 'i do have time for peeking/poking other OS too' a long time now, so Solaris is bit blurry area for me now. I do easily remember things like being able to install screen easily just to see it's not working and not even complaining during installation for missing ncurses. With correctly packaged RPMS one could not do such things by accident.
Another matter might be hardware support for some people. Most of the targetted hardware being PCI, Linux might provide wider support of hardware than Solaris - at least it does for me :)
So there might be numerous reason why people would like to run Linux instead of Solarsis on sparc hardware.
Then there is Aurora Project. w/o some of the patches made there, o'd be not even able to to hack CentOS-4 codebase to work on sparc at all. Aurora being targeted a little different now as they are re-building Fedora Core and i'd say CentOS-4 target would be long term maintainability and not so much all the cool bleeding edge. Both can co-exists and benefit from each other tho.