[vox-tech] Sparc-based distro?

Ken Bloom kabloom at ucdavis.edu
Wed Jan 19 19:23:12 PST 2005


On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:06:41PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> For quite awhile, I've been lobbying to get a Linux desktop at my workstation 
> at work.  My boss finally gave me an old Sunblade 100, which is a SPARC 
> machine.
> 
> None of the distros I have in my possession -- FC1, 2, or 3; SuSE Pro 9.1; 
> Debian Woody -- are meant for a SPARC based machine.  I've Googled around and 
> have only found one distro, Aurora, which is based on RH 7.3.
> 
> Is anyone aware of any distributions that might work on this machine?

Download the Debian SPARC port. It's one of Debian's 11 officially
supported arches.

--Ken Bloom

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