Re: Request for a Debian CD logo - was: Re: Sorry for the noise...

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

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On 5/2/19 11:23, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> Slightly off topic but I really need to do some SPARC testing as I am
> swimming in that stuff.  There just is no way to keep Solaris running
> anymore on anything older than eight or nine years ago and so testing
> my fav Linux distro seems like a damn fine idea.

I agree. Apart from that, ever tried Tribblix ([1])? I never found the
time to test it, but there's a variant for SPARC available.

[1]: http://www.tribblix.org/

> This is a note mostly to remind myself to get that going.
>
> I have an M4000 sitting around with 256G of memory and fully loaded
> doing nothing but fighting gravity.  That seems wrong to me.

Sorry to discourage you, but I expect you will only get GRUB running on
that machine unless the Linux support for Fujitsu's SPARC64 - what
version do you got in this machine: VI, VII or VII+? - has been improved
in the meantime (see [2]). But nevertheless you could give it a try, as
I only have SPARC64 V+ powered machines available.

[2]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/09/msg00017.html

Apart from GNU/Linux, OpenBSD has support for this machine (see [3]) if
you want some "current" OS on it.

[3]: http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html

Cheers,
Frank