[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux on Sun

[David Stanaway]

On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 22:08, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> Tom Woody wrote:
> > Didn't support for the UltraSparcs get discontinued - except for I think one distro (which I can't think of).  So you couldn't for example just run Mandrake or Redhat like I seem to remember you used to be able to.  Correct me if I am wrong - I have passed on some awesome deals on some very cheap ultrasparcs because I couldn't run RedHat (personal preference - not fuel for a flame war).
> 
> In addition to SuSE which Chris mentioned, I believe the distro you're trying 
> to remember is Yellow Dog (IIRC).  I also have vague memories that Slackware 
> did for awhile too (I'm probably wrong on this one).  And, we had RH6.2 
> running on an Ultra1 at my last company.  We stuck it outside the firewall 
> just for fun, it didn't do anything except use electricity. :-)  Looking at 
> the logs and seeing people try to break into it, but not knowing what to do 
> with it (being Linux AND a non-Intel chip set) was amusing.  And Gnome was a 
> lot snappier on it than CDE was when it ran Solaris.

http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc64/

The debian sparc port binaries run on sparc64 if you use their sparc64
kernel.
 
-- 
David Stanaway