[Cialug] Sun + Linux

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John,

I am currently running the FreeBSD sparc arch distro.  Seems to run like a
champ.  I had to switch to FBSD because the Debian SPARC port would not
boot.

FreeBSD shell1.lanside.net 5.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Feb
24 07:47:33 GMT 2004
root at bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  sparc64

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of John.Lengeling at radisys.com
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 11:13 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] Sun + Linux



cialug-bounces at cialug.org wrote on 02/14/2006 05:39:59 PM:

> On 2/14/06, John.Lengeling at radisys.com <John.Lengeling at radisys.com> wrote:

> 
> Okay, I will ask a stupid question....Why not just run Solaris?  It 
> runs 100% without problems. 
> 
>  Have you *run* Solaris? An old E3500 is probably free, why not have
> some fun and let it run a real OS before it dies? 

Just curious since the last time that I ran RedHat on a Sun the hardware
support was minimal and the port was eventually abandoned.  Of course I was
using older hardware like IPX, SS5. Seems like as soon as you stray from
x86, the quality of the port goes down.  Are there other Linux/Sparc ports
available now?  I see BSD has an UltraSparc port, has anyone tried it? 

johnl