Try Debian GNU/Linux. I run it on both MicroSparc and UltraSparc. Not the easiest of distributions to install and configure, but well worth the time to get familiarised with. Debian is stable and is well supported - loads of help on their website and there is also a very good O'Reilly book availible. Security updates are prompt and there doesn't seem to be any major bugs kicking around. It also seems very efficiant in its use of resources and you can get it to install in quite a small amount of disk space (though this is true for most distros if you take the time to install packages one-by-one!) The ethos behind the OS is also pretty cool.
I don't think Debian is using the latest kernal yet (not for Sparc at any rate) and there might not be as many packages availible for Debian as other distros, but you should be able to compile most stuff you need without much trouble if it isn't on the 3 ISOs that are availble from many locations.
Best way of starting your installation is to boot from CDROM. When you have completed that, you instal the.deb packages themselves. Older Suns (SS5 etc) will boot from floppy, but not Sun4u (UltraSparc) machines. Once you have the base install completed you can do the.debpackages via HTTP/FTP or whatever. All in all, you should be up and running within three or four hours to a single working day, depending on how you configure your box, security, packages, etc.
I've tried most distros on Sparc over the last eighteen months and Debian is my fave hands down. You might also want to check out SuSE who released a Sparc port last month.
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Jesus, you have every right, and a moral obligation, to care about what happens to people in other countries - be it Internet access in Africa or otherwise. The reason most of the 'developing world' is in such a disparate state is because of attitudes like yours. You and your fellow country men and women frankly have no right to stampede over these people for the benefit of your own material ego.
The situation in the 'virtual world' is no different to the situation in the 'material world'. Unless policy makers start acting responsibly and users start realising that the way they use the Internet does affect the lives of other people that there is going to different kind of 'digital divide'which the book that started this discussion more than hints at.
Not only that, but unless we as people bring multinational corporations to heel over their involvement in ICT projects in 'the South', then we will have nothing more than what in effect will be digital mercantilism with all the associated issues and baggage of 18th Century mercantilism.
And look at the bloody state that has left us in....
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Try Debian GNU/Linux. I run it on both MicroSparc and UltraSparc. Not the easiest of distributions to install and configure, but well worth the time to get familiarised with. Debian is stable and is well supported - loads of help on their website and there is also a very good O'Reilly book availible. Security updates are prompt and there doesn't seem to be any major bugs kicking around. It also seems very efficiant in its use of resources and you can get it to install in quite a small amount of disk space (though this is true for most distros if you take the time to install packages one-by-one!) The ethos behind the OS is also pretty cool.
.deb packages themselves. Older Suns (SS5 etc) will boot from floppy, but not Sun4u (UltraSparc) machines. Once you have the base install completed you can do the .debpackages via HTTP/FTP or whatever. All in all, you should be up and running within three or four hours to a single working day, depending on how you configure your box, security, packages, etc.
I don't think Debian is using the latest kernal yet (not for Sparc at any rate) and there might not be as many packages availible for Debian as other distros, but you should be able to compile most stuff you need without much trouble if it isn't on the 3 ISOs that are availble from many locations.
Best way of starting your installation is to boot from CDROM. When you have completed that, you instal the
I've tried most distros on Sparc over the last eighteen months and Debian is my fave hands down. You might also want to check out SuSE who released a Sparc port last month.
Jesus, you have every right, and a moral obligation, to care about what happens to people in other countries - be it Internet access in Africa or otherwise. The reason most of the 'developing world' is in such a disparate state is because of attitudes like yours. You and your fellow country men and women frankly have no right to stampede over these people for the benefit of your own material ego.
The situation in the 'virtual world' is no different to the situation in the 'material world'. Unless policy makers start acting responsibly and users start realising that the way they use the Internet does affect the lives of other people that there is going to different kind of 'digital divide'which the book that started this discussion more than hints at.
Not only that, but unless we as people bring multinational corporations to heel over their involvement in ICT projects in 'the South', then we will have nothing more than what in effect will be digital mercantilism with all the associated issues and baggage of 18th Century mercantilism.
And look at the bloody state that has left us in....
Don't Micro$oft run HotMail on BSD servers?....