[rescue] Linux/Sparc

[linc]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Big Endian wrote:
> 
> I ran RH6.1 on a dual sm61/192/4gb AXIL320(ss20 clone) for a while 
> and I was QUITE underwhelmed.  while it worked ok, the speed was 
> something I saw out of a PC of the earlier vintage.  When I put 
> solaris 8 on there the speed jumped tremendously.  For something like 
> a 20 your best bet is likely to be solaris8.  I've never used a 
> voyager so I don't know the stats on it... but if its anything like 
> an ss5 it should do ok with debian/slack/heavily modified redhat.

Voyager is something like a 60mhz Sparc 5.
 
> The linux sparc code is just plain SLOW.  I've used linux on intel, 
> alphas and sparcs and I have to say that while its faster than sol7 
> its not by much.

Huh?  You are completely out of your mind!  Rh6.2 Sparc can run rings
around Solaris 7 - Lots of rings...  While I haven't yet had the
opportunity to test Solaris 8 against Linux in the same machine I would
bet Linux is still faster - and that's on a stock kernal. ( I am gonna
have to try it now just to see.)


>  If the voyager is supported by sol8 again I wold go 
> with that.

Nahh, unfortunately it's not.  7 was the last one that would work on it
although not officially.  I will say, however, that I would switch to
NetBSD in a flat second if it only had DBRI sound support.

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