Re: Which Linux distribution for a SparcStation20?

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 07:16:02PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Sat, 09 May 2009 10:22:07 -0700
> Paul Theodoropoulos <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > have you ever actually run or used solaris?
> Yes. But not extensive and it is quite some years ago. It was on a SS5
> and NetBSD felt more responsive on that machine. Also the Solaris FDDI
> drivers (the only reason for me to run Solaris) where crappy and made
> the machine crash just by unpluging the network cable.
> 
> > opensolaris is also free and open source, it's worth mentioning.
> I thought Open Solaris is x86 only? (We are talking about 32 bit SPARC
> support here.)

So far, OpenSolaris is not available for SPARC, the closest you can get
to it is Solaris Express Community Edition (aka unstable, hot from the
repository, may eat your dog). I would not expect it to support 32 bit
SPARC, however.

You can get Solaris 10 for SPARC for free (free as in beer, not speech),
but I would expect it to list SPARC 32 bit as no longer officially
supported.

Regards,
       Alex.
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