Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 96 22:35:55 EDT | From | Tom Dyas <> | Subject | Re: Linux for sparc.. |
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> How stable / usable is linux on a sparc platform? > > Tony
Stable enough to run X windows and emacs. :) Seriously, you should join the sparclinux@vger.rutgers.edu list and read the RedHat page that has nice links to other information (URL: http://www.redhat.com/sparc).
Right now, I am running Linux/SPARC 2.0.0 on a SparcStation SLC with 16 MB. SparcLinux runs on sun4c (SLC, ELC, IPC, IPX, 1, 1+, ...) and sun4m architecture (5, 10, 20, ...) machines. Multiple processors are also supported. There is 99% SunOS binary emulation (dynamically linked executables as well).
Linux/SPARC is out the point where the final kinks are being worked out of the native libc and attention starting to turn to producing a full userland. RedHat has a lot of sparc RPM packages available but not official distribution yet.
Tom
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