loading linux on old hardware

Brian Russo brusso at phys.hawaii.edu
Wed Oct 24 10:41:55 PDT 2001


On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 05:04:17AM -0700, Linux Robot wrote:
> Does anyone know how well linux runs on SPARC processors, and what distros 
> do this?  I heard that they ported linux over to run on SPARC, and I was 
> wondering if running linux on a SPARC would be better than running the 
> traditional Solaris...

Debian/RedHat/Caldera/Mandrake/Slackware/SuSE
all 'do' sparc.

Only Debian and SuSE stay up to date on ports IMO.

Main reason to choose Solaris over Linux is if you have
applications that need Solaris..

 - bri
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