On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 12:32, Magnus wrote: > On Sunday, February 1, 2004, at 12:07 PM, Roberto J. Dohnert wrote: > > > Hey Kevin, that brings me to a question. Do you guys ever plan to do a > > RHEL for the Sparc processor family, I have 23 machines at work that > > are > > SPARC based and we have had to hunt, scrounge, jury rig anything to put > > Linux on them. > > This is answered pretty well in the Aurora mailing list archives, which > are worth looking up. Basically Linux/SPARC is a tiny niche with high > support costs so don't hold your breath. There is a very remote chance > that Fedora Core 2 will run on SPARC but probably a more realistic > chance of Fedora Core 3. > > Of course you have Debian & OpenBSD that run very well on SPARC, Aurora > Linux 1.0 (if you don't mind running Red Hat Linux 7.3), and some > others that claim at least to install on SPARC. > > There is some momentum building for cAos to run on SPARC, and already > some people working on that. > > --
I'm going to put a plug in here for OpenBSD. You are going to love this OS once you give it a chance. It doesn't make for a super workstation, but it is a superior server. Jon Carnes -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
