[LUGSB] linux on sparc distros?

[John Zabroski]

I've never used anything except Solaris for SPARC.

However, Ubuntu Linux added support for SPARC since 6.06 while I believe dropping PowerPC support.  I'm pretty sure everything that you get on x86/x86-64 -based Ubuntu Linux comes with ultraSPARC.  This likely means the release of Hardy Herron will have LTS (Long Term Support); I believe that is 3 years support for desktops, 5 years support for servers.  So, if by "support" that is what you are asking about, then Ubuntu might make sense.

There's also, of course, Sun's own offering, UltraLinux, supported by Sun specifically to work on the ultraSPARC architecture.

Erez Zadok <ezk at cs.sunysb.edu> wrote: Do you know what's the current state of sparc/linux distros?  AFAIK, none of
the main distros support sparc.  So, which distros these days support sparc,
how long have they been doing it, what's the future prospects, and how
functional/feature-full they are (e.g., do they offer most of the packages
one can find in, say, FC7?)  If any of you have experience with some
distros, even better.

I don't mind commercial distros.

Thanks,
Erez.
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