[SPARCbook] Linux on GX

[William M. Perry]

Hugo.van.der.Kooij at caiw.nl writes:

> On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Adam Rogoyski wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, You Don't Know wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have read through all of the archive messages available and can't quite
> > > > determine where we are on running Linux on the GX. I am finding Solaris a
> > > > bit less accessible than Linux. My goal would be to dual boot Solaris 2.6
> > > > (or someday 7) and SPARC Linux 6.0. Are we there yet? If someone has a
> > > > current status on Linux on the GX, I would appreciate it so that I can
> > > > decide whether it is worth installing Linux or I should wait.
> > > 
> > >    There was someone on one of these lists who said he was working on
> > > linux stuff. 
> > 
> > That would be me. X runs now, and I'm working on the uctrl support, but no
> > PCMCIA, or internal modem support yet. I've been checking the work into
> > current 2.3 kernels, but I'm at 2.3.5 since currently 2.3 won't run on
> > sparc32. I can make a kernel available somewhere if people care.
> 
> I would ;-)
> 
> Linux beats Solaris by miles when it comes to speed.

I'd love to have one as well, that way I could see if BSAFE compiles on
linux/sparc. :)

-Bill P.