[huskerlug] Re: Linux on SPARC

I'll probably start with SuSE 7.3 because it looks like it's the easiest one to
install.  

Does anybody know why the big distros dropped sparc support?  I wonder how much
extra work it was for them to port everything...

--Ben Chavet

Quoting Jim Worrest <jworrest@xxxxxxxxx>:

>       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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