Re: Any progress?

Hi, everybody.

I tried to install Gentoo last night, and that seemed to go well
(until a very rare power-outage). I don't really like Gentoo, but it
was a last resort.

From what I understand, because Gentoo is compiled as you install, the
sparc/64 shouldn't be an issue, even though Gentoo no longer supports
32-bit.

Aurora linux support Sparc (32), I believe, but I've had problems with
the ESP module, which prevents me from seeing the CD.Debian are still
dropping 32-bit support with Lenny (Testing), which isn't good.

I have a dual processor SS20 with 2xHDD's and 96 megs of RAM.  More
RAM would be good if anyone knows of any.

NetBSD and OpenBSD support 32-bit, but I like GNU/Linux, and want to
keep it that way.  I would help with sparc (32) support, but I don't
have any developer skills, or programming languages.

Hope my info helps, somehow.

Many thanks.

Cheers,

Chris.



On 08/10/2007, Mario Iseli <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 04:29:02PM +0200, Bernd Zeimetz wrote:
> > I have a Sparcstation 4 and 10 here (the SS 10 needs new fans, though,
> > but I think I have them here already), probably another one at work. If
> > anybody is interested to do Debian work on them I'll give them away for
> > free, probably also pay for the shipping.
>
> How fast are their CPUs? How much memory do they have installed? Diskspace?
> I mean, I have a SS10 as well, but 33MHz does totally suck for development.
> Maybe I would like to take one for my part...
>
> Thank you very much for your offering!
>
> Regards,
>
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