Re: Which Linux distribution for a SparcStation20?

Am 10.05.2009 um 23:41 schrieb Angus Fox:

>
> On 10 May 2009, at 21:33, Alexander Schreiber wrote:
>> I thought Open Solaris is x86 only? (We are talking about 32 bit  
>> SPARC
>> support here.)
>
> >So far, OpenSolaris is not available for SPARC,
>
> Perking up at this. Oh, thanks. I didnt know that. I was hoping it  
> was for SPARC for my collection of Ultra 10's although I think it  
> might actually be time to retire them..
>
> I installed Solaris 10 05/09 x86 on vmware fusion on my mac os x  
> based server. Very easy really but kind of dated feeling to it. Cant  
> deny it works well - there are even vmware drivers for it.



That's not surprising.
It's an officially supported OS inside VMware's flagship enterprise  
products (and all others, too).
It actually works very well, as far as I can tell.



Rainer