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> I've recently become (luckily or unluckily, depending on your view) the
> recipient of an old Sparc 5 that I would like to set up as a linux
> server in my home network.
>
> What I'm looking for is if anybody has any experience with distros that
> are *still being maintained* for the sparc architecture? I'd love if it
> was Debian-ish, but Woody doesn't seem to be available for sparc?
I have an old IPX w/ PowerUp chip (80mhz up from 40), 64MB, and a quad
ethernet adapter running OpenBSD 3.0 like a champ. It has its
intricacies, but the install is the same as the i386 version and it's
fully up to date. Not Linux, I know. =)
Brian J. Conway
bconway at wpi.edu
"LINUX is obsolete"
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, creator of Minix - Jan 29, 1992
