[huskerlug] Re: Linux on SPARC

        Ben, I will point out that Debian appears to have a SPARC distro,
and Mandrake a beta one.   If you're more familiar with how those 
behave,  it could make it easier for you.  I guess Sparc computers are 
a little crankier get working than the typical pc.  ---Jim



On Friday 11 July 2003 02:56, you wrote:
> 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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