4 Jun
2003
4 Jun
'03
6:30 a.m.
On 2003.06.04 15:15 Ethan Dicks wrote:
Linux for SPARC is a dog.
This doesn't
depend on the architecture it runs on. ;-)
It runs, but for certain architectures
(sun4c especially, which is a little newer than yours),
it's vastly suboptimal.
The Sun 4/6xx is sun4m and that is newer then sun4c.
In fact, the 4/6xx
was the very first sun4m machine.
Given the age of the equipment, nobody wants to fix
the problem,
either.
On Linux. NetBSD-current/sparc has gone multiprocessor recently.
If you aren't going to run Solaris, I'd
recommend *BSD.
BTW: You can patch Solaris 8 (and 9?) and get it on the 4/6xx. A
friend
did this with a 4/6xx board in a 3/60 case. But NetBSD would be a very
good choice, especially if there isn't enough RAM...
I can understand that. This stuff wasn't exactly
designed for home
use.
I.e.: It makes a lot of fun. :-)
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/