[LUGSB] linux on sparc distros?

[Aaron Pellman-Isaacs]

I'm running the sparc port of debian on my ultra60 at home as a server,
runs perfectly.
--Aaron
> > 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.
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