the reliability, simplicity and ease of software and security upgrades has been by favorite part of Debian on my x86 boxes so i'm hoping it will be the same on the SPARC platform. otherwise, i might have to find the time to get familiar with Solaris
On Apr 1, 2005, at 8:37 PM, dale robinson wrote:
that's a bit presumptous don't you think. we all know that it's not *simply* a port that *only* has a different kernel. There are lots of things that can't be handled by sparc hardware that are different, the loader for instance... which makes install this "debian port" give so many people a headache.True. But once one can get a basic debian system sucessfully installed the rest of the system seems to be the same as other debian systems. The differences between the "32bit userland" and the 64bit processor may be noticable with some programs.Regards Dale. http://dale.orcon.net.nz