Re: Which Linux distribution for a SparcStation20?

Rodney Hopkins <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 03 May 2009 19:07:58 +0200
Alexander Feld <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi List,
> is there anyone running Linux on a Sparcstation 20?
> If yes, which distro would you recommend? I wanted to install Debian, 
> but Debian only supplies images for the Ultrasparc architecture
> (which runs very good on my Ultra1, Ultra2, Ultra5 and Enterprise
> 420R as well). I also tried Gentoo, which is available to 64bit only,
> too. So is there a distribution available that supports the 32bit
> Sparc architecture?

If you're not 100% tied to Linux, you might also consider OpenBSD and
NetBSD, both of which support SPARC 32.  I ran OpenBSD on a
SPARCstation 20 for a couple of years.  Worked great.
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