I tried MkLinux for HP, it... sort of works...
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The HPPA MkLinux port hasn't been maintained since... 1997 or so I believe, so Beware! I put it on an old 735/125 after the university's IT dept pulled the plug on supporting old SunOS and HPUX versions, allegedly due to Y2K issues.
It sort of works, but you're stuck with an old 2.0 kernel and the compiler/libs seem... flakey at best. It wouldn't read from the CD, had mysterious hangs when you scrolled up in 'less', and I could never even get ssh compiled on the thing. It worked okay as a glorified X terminal though.
Others have mentioned the Puffin Group's native Linux port to PA-RISC. Last I checked they were up to booting, loading a shell, and then crashing, but they may be farther along now...
If they're not usable yet, I'd recommend limping along on HP/UX with some gnu stuff installed, you'll have more luck actually running anything that way than with MkLinux.
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The HPPA MkLinux port hasn't been maintained since... 1997 or so I believe, so Beware! I put it on an old 735/125 after the university's IT dept pulled the plug on supporting old SunOS and HPUX versions, allegedly due to Y2K issues.
It sort of works, but you're stuck with an old 2.0 kernel and the compiler/libs seem... flakey at best. It wouldn't read from the CD, had mysterious hangs when you scrolled up in 'less', and I could never even get ssh compiled on the thing. It worked okay as a glorified X terminal though.
Others have mentioned the Puffin Group's native Linux port to PA-RISC. Last I checked they were up to booting, loading a shell, and then crashing, but they may be farther along now...
If they're not usable yet, I'd recommend limping along on HP/UX with some gnu stuff installed, you'll have more luck actually running anything that way than with MkLinux.