[huskerlug] Re: Linux on SPARC

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ben Chavet" <ben@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "hlug" <huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 11:44 PM
Subject: [huskerlug] Linux on SPARC


> 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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