Re: Linux on Sun

[Sean Jewett <sean@rimboy.com>]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Robert Citek wrote:

> On Wednesday, Sep 1, 2004, at 20:06 US/Central, clangin@siu.edu wrote:
> > Can Linux be installed on Sun hardware?
> 
> Yes.  The only distro that I know that ever supported the SPARC 
> architecture was SuSE.  But that was a few years ago when I checked.

RedHat at one point had a port to SPARC.  IIRC, Mandrake was going to pick
that up when RH dropped it.  Whether or not they're still doing it I don't
know.  I've got a rule that I stay away from Sun hardware... no particular
reason.  When you have a lot of everything else there's no point in
keeping up with that line of stuff.  Besides, I'd rather install Linux on 
a Mac.

Debian is probably the best bet.  

> Any reason you don't want to run Solaris?

GNU tools are better?  Sure, you can install them on Slowlaris.  I'm sure 
there's some good reasons.  

Sean...

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