[ale] Slack for Sparc dead
Chris Ricker
kaboom at gatech.edu
Tue Jul 17 13:05:27 EDT 2001
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> All the discussion about Sparcs lately has been interesting. Apparently
> we'll all have to roll our own, or use Debian. Slackware 8 will not be
> release for the Sparc platform and development is being halted. Bummer.
> Anyone used UltraLinux???
Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, and unofficial RH distributions still exist. Debian
on UltraSparc works well.
[kaboom at thing2:~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : TI UltraSparc IIe
fpu : UltraSparc IIe integrated FPU
promlib : Version 3 Revision 0
prom : 4.0.45
type : sun4u
ncpus probed : 1
ncpus active : 1
Cpu0Bogo : 1002.70
Cpu0ClkTck : 000000001debe980
MMU Type : Spitfire
[kaboom at thing2:~]$ uname -a
Linux thing2 2.4.4 #1 Thu May 17 11:59:44 EDT 2001 sparc64 unknown
[kaboom at thing2:~]$ uptime
10:58am up 1 day, 2:10, 9 users, load average: 0.59, 0.64, 0.46
[kaboom at thing2:~]$
later,
chris
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