Just curious what specifically in the debian sparc distro would POSSIBLY make it unusable on anything better than a classic while suse runs great on 64 bit machines. Rc scripts not optimized for 64 bit? the kernel is the kernel is the kernel.
Tom Hallaran Informatics Washington University Genome Sequencing Center 314-286-1114 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 01:37:35PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > A couple of us are playing with Linux on Sparc. It's supposed to be > > rather nice. > > > > We're currently playing with the Suse version because the guy who > > started this heard the debian version doesn't work on anything better > > than a Clasic very well. > > > > Anyone running Potatoe or Woody on a 420/450 or something relatively > > new and powerful? > > I don't know where you heard that, because Debian's main archive server > is an UltraSPARC 60 with 2 450Mhz CPU's and 1.5gigs of RAM. It handles > several hundred megs of new packages a day, including maintaining the > postgresql database of the archive layout and pushing the archive out to > several mirrors (again, on a daily basis). > > I'd say that's a notch or two better than a classic. > > -- > .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. > / Ben Collins -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
