[rescue] Happy New Year! RIP, Sun/Solaris...

Magnus magnus at yonderway.com
Sun Jan 2 15:00:10 CST 2011


On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Scott Newell wrote:
>>
>> Try Debian stable. http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc64/
>
> I had trouble with Debian on my U60--random hangs.  Seemed to go away once I
pulled the second CPU.

Honestly I've never been too impressed with Linux on sparc. It's a second tier
platform at best.

OpenBSD runs extremely well on my Sun hardware (including multiprocessor
E250). But as mentioned previously, it's rather primitive.

Magnus


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