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Slackware For Sparc

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the a-little-patrick-in-your-life dept.

FreakSoft writes "The first devel release of Slackware for the Sun Sparc was released. It isn't guaranteed to run anything, but soon the bugs will be worked out. For the time being the release can be downloaded from their site, if it doesn't work post the bugs and don't complain. David Cantrell is awesome."

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  1. Clearing up misconceptions. by Marasmus · · Score: 5
    Slackware/SPARC is in SUPER pre-release. It is downloadable only by rsync at this point. This release was intended to be a semi-private release to a small group of developers for the sake of stabilizing the codebase. After that was completed, an FTP-accessible release would be available.

    Some important notes from the developers:
    • Slackware/SPARC is not ready for production.
    • SILO is a bit broken and needs some work.
    • many other packages are very unstable, if installable.
    • changes for these problems will be occuring DAILY and WILL BE UPDATED AS SUCH on the rsync server. A cron job is in place on their rsync server to create a fresh ISO every night at midnight.
    I'd offer an FTP site with the daily updates of Slack4Sparc, but my bandwidth can't handle it. If any of you have bandwidth to do this job, I can get you going with the updates.

    Props to my crew man Toby Freaksoft, though he tends to get a bit antsy about these sorts of things. :)

    Whoever said slackware was dead should gingerly pry their cranium out of their colon. Thanks! :)
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    .... um, i lost you after "0110100001101001".
  2. Re:Why use Linux on Sparc?? by LizardKing · · Score: 3

    If I have a Sparc driven machine why should I use this toy for Intel(and now also for Sparc) called Linux?

    Your `toy' comment clearly indicates you're a troll, as does your bizarre claim to prefer using Solaris on an Intel box, however I'll credit you with a response.

    Try running recent versions of Solaris on older Sun hardware - it's no longer supported and on some configurations simply wont work. In contrast, Linux (along with OpenBSD and NetBSD) runs faster than Solaris, and works with a wide range of old Sparc hardware. Couple this with the increasing number of applications available for Linux, and you have a very sound reason to use Linux on a Sparc.

    Chris