[geeks] Linux on Ultrasparc

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On 7 Jan 2002, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 22:12, James Sharp wrote:
> > I know I'll probably go to my own personal hell for asking this...but does
> > anyone know of a Linux distribution that uses a decent revision of the 2.4
> > kernel for Ultrasparc machines?

> Get a recent Debian.  I think "Unstable" is on 2.4 by now.  It'll be
> another two or three years before the hits "stable" though.  :-)
> SuSE should also work, and the recent ones are 2.4 based, though I hate
> SuSE...

Try debian "testing".  It's what the next stable will be eventually.
Things must not break in unstable for 2 weeks before it can hit
testing.  Keeps you a good distance from the bleeding edge.  I believe
they should have 2.4 kernel packages for ultrasparc, I know they do
for x86...

--Kurt