On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:37:35PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > A couple of us are playing with Linux on Sparc. It's supposed to be > rather nice. It is. > We're currently playing with the Suse version because the guy who > started this heard the debian version doesn't work on anything better > than a Clasic very well. I can't help but wonder where they heard that. Suse and Debian are both Linux (yes, I know, we're hurd, too, don't nitpick!) so I don't see how Linux would work better if Suse's distribution was running on top of it than if Debian's distribution is running on top of it. > Anyone running Potatoe or Woody on a 420/450 or something relatively > new and powerful? I have it on a SPARCStation 20 and a couple Ultra 1s, but I don't think that's quite as modern/powerful as what you have in mind. Check with the debian-sparc@lists.debian.org mailing list. Also note that one of the debian project's primary developer machines (auric.debian.org) is a dual processor UltraSPARC. I'm not sure what model it is, but /proc/cpuinfo indicates that it has these in it: cpu : TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) fpu : UltraSparc II integrated FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 17 prom : 3.17.0 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 2 ncpus active : 2 Cpu0Bogo : 897.84 Cpu2Bogo : 897.84 MMU Type : Spitfire State: CPU0: online CPU2: online noah -- _______________________________________________________ | A subversive is anyone who can out-argue their government | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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