[ale] Linux and Sun

[Denny Chambers]

I have Redhat 6.2 installed on a SparcStation 10 (Pizza Box 50MHz SPARC,
64 MB RAM, 2 GB HD), and the performance seems to be much better that
the Sun OS (2.4 I think) that was on there previously. While I am still
not pleased with the graphics performance with KDE, it seemed to run
console commands nicely. If your running it as a console server it
shouldn't be to bad.

Denny

David Brooks wrote:
> 
>  > You *can* run linux on a sparc, but you'll get better performance running
> > Solaris/SunOS on it.
> 
> I disagree.  I ran Linux (Debian, RedHat for awhile) on a Sparcstation 4
> that I have (forsale, btw) and it ran circles around Solaris on the same
> platform.  I don't know how far this will scale up to the newer
> hardware, but from what I've seen, Linux will outdo Solaris on the older
> stuff from Sun (sun4m, some sun4u - sun4c too, if you're crazy enough to
> actually try and run anything on a sun4c-based machine).  Right now I
> run OpenBSD on my sparc, and it works like a charm.  The machine is a
> 110Mhz, yet its still pretty snappy.
> 
> I think there are only a few Linux distros out there that support sparc
> hardware (even less that support 64-bit sparc hardware).  Debian
> supports all of them.  RedHat did support all of them, but they
> discontinued their sparc port with 6.2 due to lack of usage.  I think
> Mandrake and Suse have ports too, but I cant be sure.  And if you're
> really brave, Slackware does as well.
> 
> Honestly I like OpenBSD on my sparc better than I did any of the Linux
> ports.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> -Dave
> 
> Last time I checked, Linux just wasn't delivering
> > the same level of performance as Solaris when run on Sparc hardware.  This
> > was, however, on a Sparcstation 10.  Your mileage may vary on more recent
> > hardware.
> >
> > -Matt Balaun
> >
> >
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