{"id":68,"date":"2005-05-23T21:15:53","date_gmt":"2005-05-23T21:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=68"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:17:40","slug":"what-to-run-on-sparc64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"What to run on Sparc64?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a Sparc64 machine, a <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsolve.sun.com\/handbook_pub\/Systems\/U10\/U10.html\">Sun Ultra 10<\/a> which I installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gentoo.org\/\">Gentoo<\/a> on but it&#8217;s just a little too much aggro to look after. Who wants to set a machine to recompile everything overnight and hand-merge the new config files once a week when a Debian dist-upgrade takes a fraction of the time. Frankly I prefer ease of use over speed of use first of all, I can strip a system down if I need to. Anyway, I digress.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to run <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debian.org\/\">Debian<\/a> on it but I&#8217;m waiting for Sarge and also to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/127515\/\">if Sparc64 will get axed after Sarge<\/a>. It&#8217;s also a good opportunity to look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freebsd.org\/\">FreeBSD<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openbsd.org\/\">OpenBSD<\/a>. I&#8217;d like to look at OpenBSD first of the two, just to see more of the Unix world and I looked at FreeBSD briefly once before, but OpenBSD doesn&#8217;t seem to support my PCI Sun Happy Meal 10\/100Mb ethernet card and I can&#8217;t find any CD isos. Yes, it&#8217;s lazy, I can&#8217;t be arsed putting another card in there and trying to work out how to boot the installer from floppies or a network. I just want to plug in and go. I might be hideously wrong of course, more research involved there I think.<\/p>\n<p>Debian it is then, probably, unless you think I&#8217;ve missed another free, non-obscure minority Linux or Unix for Sparc64. I Suppose I could look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensolaris.org\/\">Open Solaris<\/a> or even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/software\/solaris\/solaris-express\/\">Solaris Express<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a Sparc64 machine, a Sun Ultra 10 which I installed Gentoo on but it&#8217;s just a little too much aggro to look after. Who wants to set a machine to recompile everything overnight and hand-merge the new config &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=68\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}