Re: new to SPARC and Debian-sparc
On Tuesday 07 June 2005 13:00, John WHITE wrote:
> Afternoon all,
> Can I preface this post by saying I am new to sparc and have only dabbled
> in installing Debian (although I have been building PC's for >9yrs and
> using flavours of linux for 7 yrs). I installed Solaris 10 on my Ultra5 and
> then though it fun to install Debian - which went fine -no problems there.
> Linux seemed to run faster but of course the current stable version is
> fairly 'old'. What is he current availability of newer or unstable packages
> - is there quite a comprehensive selection? Can I (or how do I/do I have
> to) compile packages for sparc (I have done this for i386)? Any other
> gotchas??
> Pl remember I am new to Debian/SPARC and
>
A new version of Debian was released yesterday which is MUCH more up-to-date.
You should be able to upgrade to it simply by running 'apt-get update &&
apt-get dist-upgrade'.
You can compile stuff on SPARC just like you can on x86, but you probably
won't need to - most of the software you'll ever need is available within
Debian.
Regards,
David.
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