From: Cookie (cookie_at_iacookie.net)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 19:48:39 CET
Message-Id: <p06020402bc63ee8579a7@[192.168.1.106]> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 13:48:39 -0500 From: Cookie <cookie@iacookie.net> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Watchout ... 32bit
FYI
I have 3 sparc 10's all running dual or quad
hypersparcs chugging along running Aurora 1,
and the current aurora patches.
In addition I have an IPX that while slow
is happy to run Aurora too!
While Ultra steals the thunder alot of the
time, Aurora runs on, and is currently supporting
32 bit.
#more /var/log/dmesg
PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2
Linux version 2.4.22 (root@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version
egcs-2.91.66 1999
0314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #5 SMP Thu Sep 25 15:14:29 EDT 2003
ARCH: SUN4M
TYPE: Sun4m SparcStation10/20
>Yes, I agree.... suse's sparc is "discontinued".
>But weren't people using RH 6.0 on the SPARC for years after they dropped it?
>
>I found 178 patches in:
>ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/sparc/update/7.3/patches.cont/
>indluding:
>10219 May 20 2003 glibc-31286
>
>were there more available at an earlier date?
>
>
>I did look at auroralinx.org but they don't seem too concerned with
>supporting the older 32 sparc bit machines either.
>
>I'm not a "power sparc" user. I'm just looking to run a SPARC 20 (32 bit) as
>a headless backup server, name server and maybe a firewall to serve a small
>local network with a DSL connection. My bet is that Suse 7.x will serve me
>fine for this application. Right now I have 7.0 installed and it seems
>very promising.
>
>I'm still not sure I really will need the 2.4 kernel but I
>do plan to try installing Suse 7.3 and maybe Debian 3.0. If everything
>works OK I'll probably stick with Suse since not sure I want to take
>the time to learn the "debian way" even though I'm sure its very good.
>
>-Dave
>
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