[vox-tech] Sparc-based distro?

Josh Parsons jbparsons at ucdavis.edu
Wed Jan 19 22:48:54 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 19:06 -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:

> 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.

I've used Aurora on various sparc machines, and was pretty happy with
it. I'm used to rpm-based distros and didn't particularly want to change
to debian. I also did a lot of manual rebuilding and upgrading of
packages.

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