From: Bob Drzyzgula (bob_at_drzyzgula.org)
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 02:00:35 CET
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 20:00:35 -0500 From: Bob Drzyzgula <bob@drzyzgula.org> Message-ID: <20051107010035.GA7493@mail.internal> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Latest build
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:48:08AM -0000, Roger Tattersall wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hans Witvliet [mailto:hwit@a-domani.nl]
> > Sent: 06 November 2005 23:40
> > To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> > Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Latest build
> >
> > Sparc is supported somewhere, have a look at auroralinux.org.
> > Dennis is porting /recompiling a huge number of packages for
> > Sparc ( http://aurora.fedoramirror.net/pub/aurora/ )
> >
> > And if you don't mind going back in time for ten years, you
> > might try *bsd. Current best option (imho) install aurora
> > 1.00, and upgrade to 1.92, and eventually Corona.
> >
> > Hans
>
> Is this viable for sparc m machines? I have a pile of sparc 5s and 20's to
> play with.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rog
You could also look at OpenBSD. SPARC, including the
4m architecture, is well-supported by that OS. I only
recently shut down a SPARC 5 running OpenBSD-based
firewall, and the performance, for that application,
was just fine.
http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html
--Bob
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