[SunRescue] Linux for SPARCStation 2

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 07:23:01AM -0500, Mark Price wrote:
> Hi, even though it is supposed to work, I don't think RedHat Linux 6.1
> will install on your SS2.  It wouldn't install on mine (w/ 64MB RAM) and
> I've heard from other people that the install program is too bloated or
> something for SS2's..  RedHat 6.0 should work, but of course most people
> prefer to run a BSD-variant on the SPARCstations.  NetBSD and OpenBSD will
> run, as well as OpenStep.
> Mark

Actually, SPARClinux still has a memory leak/kernel slowdown problem on
Sun4c-based machines, which is why Redhat doesent list sun4c as a primary
supported platform.

Bill

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