[wplug] Linux Distribution for Sparc

[Jonathan Billings]

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/

The list on this page include:
     * Alpha
     * ARM
     * HP PA-RISC
     * Intel x86
     * Intel IA-64
     * Motorola 680x0
     * MIPS
     * MIPS (DEC)
     * PowerPC
     * IBM S/390
     * SPARC

Here's the SPARC page: http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/

On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 10:28  AM, John Harrold wrote:

> Sometime in November Scott Eicher assaulted the keyboard and produced:
>
> | hello,
> |
> | Does anyone know of a good distribution that will run on a sparc 
> processor?
> | I've tried loading Mandrake for Sparc on an Ultra 10 workstation and 
> a Netra
> | T1 105 but I wasn't able to get to the installation on either of 
> them. They
> | both failed trying to boot off the CD. It was Mandrake 7.1 and I read
> | somewhere that they stopped releasing Sparc versions after this 7.1. 
> I've
> | heard that Suse and Debian both make versions for Sparc but I'm 
> wondering if
> | there are any others and which would install with the least of 
> amount of
> | problems.
> |
>
> i'm pretty sure debian work on sparcs.
>
>
>
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