From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Josh Grebe Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 15:19:12 +0000 Subject: Re: Which distribution to use? Message-Id: <42822270.7030706@brokedown.net> List-Id: References: <20050511145638.B3281C00173@mail.conkret.de> In-Reply-To: <20050511145638.B3281C00173@mail.conkret.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Herbert, http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/sparc/ http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/ ultralinux.org is really out of date. Josh herbert@wengatz.de wrote: > Hi there! > > I just got an Ultra-30 and an Ultra-10 for myself at home. I want to install Linux on at least on of the two machines. > > All I did find on the web about Linux on Sparc seems to be about 2-3 years old, which makes me somewhat sad... > > Which is the distribution that supports currently those boxes best? > > I'd like to have (due to very little spare time) an almost hassle-free > installation. I'm used to SuSE, Knoppix, Slackware and RedHat (experience decreases in that order) and of course lots of Solaris (any). > > I'd like to try Gentoo (is there a port to Sparc?), but have had some troubles in installing Debian on x86, so I shy a little away from that... > > By the way, they both have a Creator 3D card and I'd like to use that, too... > > And, last but not least: Anything special about the compilers? > > Any recommendations? > > > Best regards, > > Herbert > > "Think. - This part is not optional." - Pavel Honzek in a cluster course :-) > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > !DSPAM:42821d75236001595214498! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCgiJwT/OY5rt9JCMRAhIgAJ9RFMv7jA3p3O93JPAOjhtQ1u9/zwCgxbWw 9eXLLKK1O5yCPPw4Jpt6LBM=ejPC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----