Re: Sparcstation 2

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Cody Swanson wrote:

> I have been given a fully loaded sparcstation 2 with solaris 2.5 on it
> and I was pondering what OS I should put on it. I was thinking about
> going with linux but most linux distros have dropped support for the
> sun4c platform some time ago. Solaris 7 is a little too old to be useful
> and solaris 8 would likely be too slow. I could install openbsd on it,
> that might be my only choice for a modern OS at this point. Any ideas?

OpenBSD or NetBSD are good choices. None of the Linux variants have very 
good early Sparc support as most are concentrating Sparc-port efforts on 
Ultrasparc and later systems.

Craig.

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