[Aurora-sparc-user] Sparc 20 and ESP module status.

[T. Ribbrock]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:34:26AM +0100, Chris Andrew wrote:
> Re: *BSD, NetBSD supports 32 bit, and I think Open does, too.  Much
> prefer to use GNU/Linux though.  Debian dropping support for sparc32
> with Lenny.

OpenBSD does support 32bit Sparc[0] - in fact, the last 32bit machine I
installed (Sparc 10 clone as scanner server) was OpenBSD, as Aurora
wouldn't install at all. Nice, clean and lean system and an excellent
alternative for server duty, IMO. Biggest gripe I have is the missing SMP
support for Sparc/Sparc64. Also, OpenBSD worked just fine on a SS5/170
(which is problematic with Linux - unless that has changed within the
past two years) as a desktop, though X isn't quite up to speed on Sparc.

Cheerio,

Thomas

[0] http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html
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