Re: Sparcstation 2

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Cody Swanson <[email protected]>
> " 
> " 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?
> 
> my system here until only a few years ago was a sparc2.  adding to
> what others said, solaris 8 will not run on sun4c; i'm not sure about
> 7.  i last ran 2.6 and was pretty happy.  i agree that if you abandon
> solaris, *bsd would be the way to go.

Although it hasn't been used in a while, I've got a Sparc2 around 
somewhere which has Solaris 7 on it. (Solaris 7 (or SunOS 5.7 for those 
that prefer that parlance) was the last Solaris release to support sun4c 
hardware).

Having said that, it's far from a speed demon so if you must use Solaris 
on it, either use it as a remote display for a faster machine (as 
suggested) or have patience with it :)

--Phil.

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