[NCLUG] Linux on Sun Hardware

Michael Dwyer mdwyer at sixthdimension.com
Mon Jan 21 18:27:43 MST 2002


R P Herrold wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Jim Wildman wrote:
> 
> > SUSE does support SPARC.  I've done it on Sparc clones and it works very
> > nicely.
> 
> and similarly, Red Hat does, but not with the latest and
> greatest without a bit of porting -- and that porting is well
> in hand -- see:
>    http://aurora.linuxpower.org/ which is Red hat 7.2 -- but
> Sun people are used to being a couple of laps behind, in the
> name of stability <grin>

Oh, Suns are certainly stable.  You could park one of my Sun 4/330s at
the beach in California during a tsunami AND an earthquake, and the
thing would hardly move...  

:)

-mdwyer -- "They'd make excellent door-stops, if I only had doors THAT
BIG!"



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