loading linux on old hardware

Epsas Nova epsas at inflicted.net
Wed Oct 24 12:09:26 PDT 2001


On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 07:41:55AM -1000, Brian Russo wrote:
> 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..
> 

Which is really the only reason to use Solaris on single-CPU SPARCs...



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