Ubuntu On SPARC

[Zac Brown]

Not to say you shouldn't want the Ubuntu SPARC release, but which
release did you use for your SPARC machine when you tried Debian? If you
use Woody, you could backport to a relatively new release of xfree86,
the version is 4.2.1, it'd be better than using the RPM based distro
IMHO. Just a thought, though its possible you could probably find older
versions of the XFree86 packages I'd think ;)

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 11:30 +0100, Thom Holwerda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering-- what chances are there that we'll ever see an Ubuntu 
> version for (Ultra)SPARC? I have been shopping around for a decent 
> Linux distribution for my UltraSPARC machine for ages now-- and nothing 
> satisfies my needs. A short round-up:
> 
> Debian: installed mighty fine, all went perfectly fine. Performed well. 
> Too bad it contains a showstopper bug: it uses Xfree 4.3.0, wich is the 
> only X release that doesn't work well with Sun Type5 keyboards. So I 
> had a messed-up keyboard layout. Not easy to fix by ie. switching to 
> another keyboard; Sun uses proprietary connectors. I did get to play 
> with Gnome 2.6 (or does unstable have 2.4? I'm not sure from the top of 
> my head), and it performed very well for the old machine I have.
> 
> Aurora SPARC Linux: I'm currently running version 1.0 of this 
> distribution, 1.0 is based off of the RedHat 7.x series. Aurora is 
> currently at 1.92 (Fedora Core 2) but it's an RPM only release. The 
> manual upgrade failes.
> 
> And well, those are the only two maintained distro's that one can 
> easily set up as a desktop. There is Gentoo (not easy :P) and Suse and 
> MDK and Slack have all discontinued their SPARC releases.
> 
> Seeing how well Debian already worked on SPARC: how much work would it 
> be to make a useable SPARC version of Ubuntu? I am mighty satisfied 
> with Ubuntu on my x86; however, I don't really like x86 :). I think 
> Ubuntu could fill a major gap here.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Thom Holwerda
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