[vox-tech] Sparc-based distro?

Richard S. Crawford rscrawford at mossroot.com
Wed Jan 19 20:03:24 PST 2005


On Wednesday 19 January 2005 19:23, Ken Bloom somehow made these words show up 
on my computer:
> 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.

Looks like there's a SPARC port of Gentoo, too.  
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