On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:20:58 MST, Sean Whitney writes: >Sparc also provides a console port which makes headless operations easier. but to be honest, one also has to mention that there are occasionally /very/ annoying issues wrt. 64bit kernel versus 32bit userland[0] that makes using linux on (recentish) sparcs more annoying than necessary. my personal 2 cents: if you like suns, there's no reason not to run linux on them. if you have multiple architectures to deal with, that'd be another reason to run debian on all of them. regards, az (happy sparc-user since the day of IPCs) [0] stuff at the boundary between kernel and userland can get structure sizes wrong easily if it isn't specifically written to recognize the split personality. ulog and iptables were the most annoying examples of this problem that i ran into personally. -- + Alexander Zangerl + DSA 42BD645D + (RSA 5B586291) Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three). -- RFC 1925
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