> > We keep having this tail of zombie architectures. Long obsolete > > hardware, run by few people, with pitiful "best effort" package > > builds happening each release and with luck once between. They > > slowly sink under the accumulating bitrot that nobody cares to fix, > > but at the same time people can't bring themselves to completely > > abandon those archs. *shrug* > <snip> > I will dust off my ss20 this weekend see if it powers up. >
A SparcStation 20 is a relic for historical reference only. A cool item and if it powers up I would be surprised. However it won't make any more sense than to have a 1976 Ford truck as a daily driver. It would be a waste of effort to look at anything previous to a Sun Fire V890 or any UltraSPARC IV based server. There are very few out there running Solaris any more and only hobby types have SPARC anywhere else. I ran OpenBSD 5.4 briefly on a small UltraSPARC Netra and it ran very well. However I ran into issues trying to compile things. I may look at OpenBSD again but really anything less than a modern Niagara class UltraSparc would be wasted efforts I think. Dennis
