[huskerlug] Re: Linux on SPARC

        Someone brought up this awhile ago and did come up with a
distribution different from SuSE 7.3.  I use this distro on my IBMs and it 
usually works very well, and there is still support for it.  ---Jim




On Thursday 10 July 2003 23:44, you wrote:
> We have a bunch of old Sun machines where I work and I'm interested in
> putting linux on them.  For some of the machines it will mean bringing them
> back from the dead, for others it will be a migration from Solaris.  Most
> of these machines are workstations in our computer lab which nobody really
> uses, which is why I'm interested in introducing something new.  It might
> sparc some new interest in these machines (pun half-way intended :)
>
> Looking around, it seems that most of the major distros have dropped SPARC
> support quite a while ago.  Does anybody have any suggestions as to which
> distro would work best.  I'd like to have a package-based distro of some
> sort just to make software installation a bit easier.  Although I realize
> that most projects don't package for SPARC anyway, so I'd be willing to
> play around with a source-based distro.
>
> Any tips or suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> --Ben Chavet
>
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