Akemi Yagi wrote: > On 7/9/07, Adam Breaux <breauxaj at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 7/7/07, Chris <racerx at 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. :) Best,