redbaron wrote: > Hi list, > Does anyone knew if there is a R-H edition for Sun (for CPU Spark x2), > newer then 6.2?
Redhat dropped support for SPARC at 6.2. There were a couple of reasons for it, the biggest being that SUN4 and SUN4C architecture has no buyers (only old machines in people homes), SUN4M is being phased out and SUN4U has some very nice Linux distributions of it's own. Sun released solaris for free for non commercial use: Solaris 7 (free if you paid for the shipping) supports 4c, 4m, and 4u, i386. Solaris 8 (4c,4m,4u, I386) was free for downloading. Solaris 9 (4m,4u) is free for downloading. In February SUN announced that they would be releasing an official SUN Linux. On the older machines (sun4, sun4c), BSD (free/net) works much better than Linux. So Redhat cut their losses and gave up. > Dose a generic source code can be compiled on this platform, or any > other problems? Sort of. GCC is GCC, Glibc is Glibc and the Linux kernel is the Linux kernel. There are some hardware differences, such as the size of integers and pointers and the endianess of the data. SUN did it correctly, INTEL did not. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours ahead of New York. Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
