[dundee] How do you do yours?

[Andrew Clayton]

On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 19:04, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've got various UltraSPARC machines here that I'd like to dual boot with
> Linux so I can check cross platform development. Currently I use RedHat on

I presume, dual boot with Slowaris....

> Intel, but I was wondering if there was a 'better' option.
> 
> What would you recommend (and why), I have the choice of:
> 
> Red HAt

If you want a RH distro use Aurora, currently a port of RH 7.3,
(www.aurora.org), RH stopped support for the SPARC with RH 6.2.


> Debian

Probably a good choice.


> Caldera

Do they do a SPARC port?, even if so, I'd steer well clear of them,
given the SCO connection, this is reason enough....


> Mandrake
> Suse
> Slackware
> Rock
> and Gentoo.

Apparently (though this was from the mouth of the Aurora project
leader...) not a good choice esp regarding SPARC64.


> 
> Your comments would be appreciated. 


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Andrew Clayton