[LUGSB] linux on sparc distros?

[Mark Drago]

> Erez Zadok <ezk at cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>  Do you know what's the current state of sparc/linux distros? AFAIK, none of
> the main distros support sparc. So, which distros these days support sparc,
> how long have they been doing it, what's the future prospects, and how
> functional/feature-full they are (e.g., do they offer most of the packages
> one can find in, say, FC7?) If any of you have experience with some
> distros, even better.
>
> I don't mind commercial distros.
>
> Thanks,
> Erez.

On Nov 8, 2007 12:17 PM, John Zabroski <johnzabroski at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've never used anything except Solaris for SPARC.
>
> However, Ubuntu Linux added support for SPARC since 6.06 while I believe
> dropping PowerPC support.  I'm pretty sure everything that you get on
> x86/x86-64 -based Ubuntu Linux comes with ultraSPARC.  This likely means the
> release of Hardy Herron will have LTS (Long Term Support); I believe that is
> 3 years support for desktops, 5 years support for servers.  So, if by
> "support" that is what you are asking about, then Ubuntu might make sense.
>
> There's also, of course, Sun's own offering, UltraLinux, supported by Sun
> specifically to work on the ultraSPARC architecture.

I haven't used the sparc port of debian, but they claim that it is
fully supported:

http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/

Mark.