[geeks] Linux on Ultrasparc

Gregory Leblanc geeks at sunhelp.org
Tue Jan 8 00:16:03 CST 2002


On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 22:12, James Sharp wrote:
> I know I'll probably go to my own personal hell for asking this...but does
> anyone know of a Linux distribution that uses a decent revision of the 2.4
> kernel for Ultrasparc machines?
> 
> I've got this fancy whizbang Gig-E card that I'd love to use in a tape
> backup server...but 2.2 doesn't support it.

Get a recent Debian.  I think "Unstable" is on 2.4 by now.  It'll be
another two or three years before the hits "stable" though.  :-)  
SuSE should also work, and the recent ones are 2.4 based, though I hate
SuSE...
	Greg

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