Re: [SLUG] Linux on sparc-station

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 16:48:24 EDT


>> Are there any distros of Linux that run on a sparc station, like a Sparc
>> 20?
>> Any experiences good or bad?
>
> If you mean sun4m architecture machines, then: Debian, and in the past
> SuSE I believe. sun4u/sparc64 seems to be more widely supported.
>
> The last time I tried Debian on my SS20, just about every program linked
> to libc spat out spurious "unimplemented system call" messages, so I guess
> you can consider their SPARC support a work in progress.

How long ago was that? It's my impression that debian-sparc has been
stable for a long time.
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