[geeks] OS for an Ultra 2

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 13:51 +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
> 
> > That leaves Solaris and Linux.  Linux SMP on x86 is excellent, not sure
> > about SPARC.  I hated Linux on SPARC years ago, but I've been told it is
> > OK now.
> 
> Last time I looked, kernel 2.6 didn't run on sparc platforms. I
> presume this has changed in the meantime (it should, anyway!), you
> will probably want 2.6 if you need smp. Smp support has improved a
> great deal since 2.4.

The 2.6 kernels run fine on SPARC.  For that matter, one of the build
machines for Aurora Linux is a dual 400MHZ Ultra 2 box.  Though, I would
say that if you don't like linux on some other platform, you're probably
not going to like it on SPARC.
	Greg