5 Aug
2005
5 Aug
'05
2:06 p.m.
I'v ejust installed Debian Sarge onto an old UltraSparc 10 (64bit), with 256M RAM and it seems to run quite nicely (although Gnome is a bit slow).
However, there are a few quirks: The kernel is 2.4.27 - I was hoping for a 2.6 kernel. I don't really understand why 2.4 is only available. Because of this, some other daemons don't run (like hald), reporting that a 2.6 kernel is required.
Also, I haven't managed to get the sound to work.
Apart from that, i can recomment Debian on the Sparc 64.
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Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS
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