[Gllug] Debian on SPARC 64bit

[Nix]

On Wed, 03 Jul 2002, tet at accucard.com mused:
> I'd recommend to anyone that they experience as many flavours of
> Unix as possible. It's an invaluable learning experience, and will

Agreed, 100%.

At least you learn what's wrong with all of them.

Try to find some old Unix boxes, as well, old HP-UX or AIX or IRIX or
even Interactive. The older, the odder: and it's the odd ones that teach
you a lot about the way that inter-Unix portability has improved in the
last few years :)

(It's the odd ones that drive you insane, too.)

>                                                     Solaris has
> some nice things that aren't quite there yet in Linux, such as
> multipathing.

Er, what's that? Linux has multi-path routing, and has had it since
2.2. *Appallingly* documented, but there.

> PS. In answer to your original question, you should have no problems
>     with Linux on that machine. I've been using Linux on sparc and
>     sparc64 for years without problems.

I bow to your greater knowledge (I've been using it on those for ten
months; six months if you count from the time I got my first non-kernel
SPARC64 userspace stuff going.)

-- 
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                 `Nick shipped buggy code!'
                                             `Oh, no dinner for him...'


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