Chris Reeves
Is it possible to run SuSE on a Sun Sparc machine (I don't know if there is a version for that platform). If not (or even if so) do you know which is the best distro to use on a Sparc?
I have seen references to SparcLinux. I don't know anything about it. I
didn't know until Friday that I wanted to know anything about it. Turns
out I just became the proud owner of a well-used Sparc 5 that came up
surplus at work. Don't have a clue what I'm going to do with it, but the
price was right. So I'm suddenly interested in this topic myself. :}
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Bud Rogers
RedHat 6.1 is your best bet. You will find that 6.2 beta, piglet, is out. I have installed it and it has a few problems. I would stay with 6.1 for a little while longer. Don't forget to download powertools 6.1 for sparc also. If you are use to the kde support in SuSE, you will be disappointed with RedHat. If you are disappointed with the gnome support in SuSE, you will be pleased with RedHat. I have tried Dedian 2.1R4, 2.1R2, Caldera 2.2 ( it is half cooked, can't tell if it is .2 or .3) and Spiro 64. Mandrake has announced that it will support sparc. I have not seen a download of the sparc distribution yet. With a sparc 5 you also have the options of the BSDs. I look at them time to time, but am looking for ultra support. I can not tell you what the status of those projects but older hardware support is there. This post is not really off topic as, I think, there are a few who would like to see SuSE sparc support. Thank you Russell
If not (or even if so) do you know which is the best distro to use on a Sparc?
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On Sun, Feb 13, Russell Evans wrote:
This post is not really off topic as, I think, there are a few who would like to see SuSE sparc support.
kukuk@allen:~ > telnet ingerimm Trying 10.10.0.203... Connected to ingerimm. Escape character is '^]'. Welcome to SuSE Linux 6.3 (SPARC) - Kernel 2.2.14 (0). Ingerimm login: [...] kukuk@Ingerimm:~ > uname -a Linux Ingerimm 2.2.14 #1 Sat Feb 12 14:37:38 GMT 2000 sparc unknown ;-) -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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