Debian Sarge on Sparc64 - main

5 Aug 2005

      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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