[TriLUG] Linux on Sparc

[Chris Hedemark]

On Tuesday 12 March 2002 10:43 am, you wrote:
> I just got word that my app has to run on Sparc.  I've using Intel.  The
> only thing I've ever done on a Sparc machine was order compilers for
> Solaris 2.x.
>
> Should I be panicing?

Nope.  Red Hat 6.2 was officially supported on the Sparc platform and that 
was a very decent release so I encourage you to give that a try.  Some other 
distros have also been trying to improve Sparc support as well.

Sooner or later I'll get to try it on my Ultra 5.

I think Debian is also running pretty well on SPARC but I don't really follow 
Debian that closely.

OpenBSD support for UltraSPARC has improved DRAMATICALLY since the 3.0 
release so the 3.1 release which I would expect to see around June should 
work really well with single processor Sparc machines.

I think NetBSD runs on UltraSPARC but I am not sure about FreeBSD.

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Chris Hedemark
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