[Tfug] Sparc 64 computer

[Zack Williams]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:10 PM,  <earljviolet at deserthowler.com> wrote:
> I'm digging my Tatung Sun clones out of the storage shed.  I ran Debian on
> them about 3-4 years ago with some success.  I'm still subscribed to the
> sparc Debian list; they seem to have problems so I.m looking for other
> possible distributions: FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD.
>
> I'd appreciate some suggestions as which to try.  I'm not looking for
> super graphics support but it would be nice to run fvwm and emacs.  Sound
> would be nice but not necessary.
>
> Have video vga and funny sun connector on different machines so need video
> support for both.

OpenBSD or NetBSD will probably have better support than most other
distros.  I'd pick based on hardware compatibility.

Are these 32 or 64 bit machines?

I'm running OpenBSD 4.7 on a 2x1Ghz US3 Fire V210 - works great as a
firewall (total overkill though)

- Zack