[ale] Slack for Sparc dead

[kaboom at gatech.edu (Chris Ricker)]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Jonathan Rickman wrote:

> All the discussion about Sparcs lately has been interesting. Apparently
> we'll all have to roll our own, or use Debian. Slackware 8 will not be
> release for the Sparc platform and development is being halted. Bummer.
> Anyone used UltraLinux???

Debian, SuSE, Mandrake, and unofficial RH distributions still exist.  Debian
on UltraSparc works well.

[kaboom at thing2:~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu             : TI UltraSparc IIe
fpu             : UltraSparc IIe integrated FPU
promlib         : Version 3 Revision 0
prom            : 4.0.45
type            : sun4u
ncpus probed    : 1
ncpus active    : 1
Cpu0Bogo        : 1002.70
Cpu0ClkTck      : 000000001debe980
MMU Type        : Spitfire
[kaboom at thing2:~]$ uname -a
Linux thing2 2.4.4 #1 Thu May 17 11:59:44 EDT 2001 sparc64 unknown
[kaboom at thing2:~]$ uptime
 10:58am  up 1 day,  2:10,  9 users,  load average: 0.59, 0.64, 0.46
[kaboom at thing2:~]$

later,
chris

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Chris Ricker                                            kaboom at gatech.edu

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