You could try NetBSD.  It works good on the Sparcs.
Joseph

----- Original Message -----
From: <jethro at yaron.org>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Debian on Sparc


>   Hi,
>
> Quoting Nate Sanders <nate at nerp.net>:
>
> > How does Debian work on a SS20? I have yet to see someone running it
> > on a sparc. How well does it run? I would be using this as a workstation
> > mainly. Just need X, Sound, and BitchX :-]
>
> I haven't run debian on a SPARC, but Linux is Linux, right? I ran Red Hat
on
> SPARCs a bunch.
>
> It runs fine, and you can get X going pretty easily. Linux will run on-par
with
> Solaris would on an SS20, but X _will_ be slow unless you've got like a ZX
> framebuffer in it.
>
> -Yaron
>
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