[Tfug] Sparc 64 computer

earljviolet at deserthowler.com earljviolet at deserthowler.com
Sat Nov 27 16:21:21 MST 2010


these are 64 bit machines ...
On Sat, November 27, 2010 4:07 pm, Zack Williams wrote:
> 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
>
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