[SunRescue] help a guy run 2.6 on his 670MP

Linc Fessenden rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu May 17 19:14:05 CDT 2001


Dave McGuire wrote:

> On May 17, Sam Creasey wrote:
> > eesh....  in my opinion, you don't want to.  I spent about 3-4 months
> > actively working on the linux/parisc port...  My HP 712/80 now runs
> > nextstep, because the whole process disgusted me *sooo* badly.  (granted,
> > part of this was the people I was working with...)
>
>   Argh.  I would VERY MUCH like to see some noncommercial OS on PARISC
> machines.  Those machines are readily available very cheaply, and some
> of them are VERY impressive in terms of performance.  Especially
> floating-point performance!
>
>     -Dave McGuire
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Dave, check out the Linux port - it's coming along nicely.  I saw a demo
machine (HP 9000/730) running Linux at Linux World Expo in NYC a couple months
back.  They had it humming - I was duely impressed!
-Linc.





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