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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news.mathworks.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!usenet From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Q> netBSD or Linux for old Sparcs? Date: 24 Jul 1996 13:51:35 -0500 Organization: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico Lines: 25 Message-ID: <s891c9o56w.fsf@sphinx.nuclecu.unam.mx> References: <4t3215$7c3@Germany.EU.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: spiff.gnu.ai.mit.edu X-Newsreader: September Gnus v0.80/Emacs 19.30 > the subject line says it all; we want to make use of our old Sun > Sparcs, but don't want to downgrade to Slowlaris 2.5, so the path to > go is either netBSD or Linux for Sparcs. For Linux on the Sparcs, look at the web page here: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/sparclinux.html Basically, Linux on the Sparc is the Red Hat distribution, with the latest stuff, so it happens to be a very pleasant platform to use. On the other hand, NetBSD on the Sparc is more mature -as somebody already commented-. For example, Linux on the Sparc is currently missing a decent gdb and strace, because we haven't got around fixing those. We will get debugging and strace working real soon now. Linux in the Sparc is very fast, we are still surprised at how good the system performs on the sparcs with Linux compared to SunOS and Solaris. -- miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx The GNU Midnight Commander: http://www.linux.org/mc Linux/SPARC project: http://www.geog.ubc.ca/sparclinux.html