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Hi,

Few questions to the linux users who have worked on Sun Ultra 10

I have a Sun Ultra10 workstation(UltraSPARC-IIi 300MHz, 256 MB RAM) and plan
to port a HPUX 10.20 based system on this machine using Linux. My questions are:
1. Is this possible?
2.What Linux distro of I should use?
3.Which is the best known Linux supported on Sun Ultra machines?
4. Is Sun Ultra support available on the internet?
5. How far this Ultra system be better then a Intel system?

Shall much appreciate your help.

Thanks,
Amit

Dolda2000

I've never had a Sun workstation, so I don't really know, but check the different distributions' websites. The distro that's the most probable to have sparc would probably be debian, but I'm not sure.

Hazmat

I love SPARCstations, although i have no expiriance running anything other then Solaris on them, which i also liked quite a bit. If you really wanna ditch Solaris, Debian probably would be your best bet, but i think keeping Solaris would be easiest for you.

Suns are really good for mathematical processing they are 32-bit rather then 16-bit processing, however i found using the GUI to be annoyingly slow, but after I added some RAM that didnt bother me anymore.

-Jordan

Dolda2000

You seem to be implying that Intel processors are 16-bit?

Hazmat

wow... i must've been really tired last night or somthing, cuz i dont even remember posting that. pay me no attention.
-Jordan