On Monday 09 July 2007 15:57:32 Chris Mauritz wrote: > 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, > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos 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 -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240