On Monday 09 July 2007 15:57:32 Chris Mauritz wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On 7/9/07, Adam Breaux breauxaj@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/7/07, Chris racerx@makeworld.com wrote:
By chance, has there been any progress on a 5.0 version for an Ultra Sparc?
Debian 4 supports sparc well, has done so for a long time...biggest problem is having to netboot the installer, since most sparc boxes won't get past the initial loader stages booting the kernel, it's some known SILO issue thats been going on for a while. Most distro's seems to falter after an initial release on sparc...and quickly drop the platform.
aurora sparc linux seems to be still actively developed. I used it a few years ago and it wasn't bad at all.
Every time I feel like I have the time/energy to install Linux on an old Sparc box, I consider how much energy they use and how (relative to a modern PC) slow they now seem. Pretty amazing when you consider that the E450 that you'd now use to hold down paper once cost more than a luxury car. :)
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Sorry to hijack this thread. I have got some old Sparc station 5's any one know of an o/s that I can install on them. I would like to learn all about clustering