Re: Which Linux distribution for a SparcStation20?

Laurens Vets <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Good morning Alexander,

> 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?

Don't go the Linux route, sparc32 support in Linux is dying...  I've had 
good results with Solaris 8, 9, NetBSD and OpenBSD.

Kind regards,
Laurens
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