[rescue] Re: sunpci note: TWO cards now available

[James Sharp]

> > They didn't.  6.2 was the last sparc port.  Debian and Suse are still
> > actively persuing their own sparc port though.  In fact, I would love to
> > hear from anyone running debian on their sparc to see how it actually
> > runs.  Suse might be neat as well, but it's far too bulky afaiac.
>
> I am in the middle of installing Debian on an HP machine (thanks Nick) and
> am not sure if I 'like' Debian yet.
>
> SuSE is a tad heavy, I also suspect it is really targeted toward the Ultra
> SParc's more than non-Ultra. But I will say it was a sweet rock solid OS on
> my AXi and Nutsrape rarely crashed (amazing!!)

Yeah, I ran it on my Ultra 60 clone server for a while...until I
discovered the pricks at Emulex wouldn't release a Sparc driver for their
FC-AL card...so I went back to solaris.