I have two sparc's running linux. Each of them have 192 megs of ram. They
run pretty quick for normal use. It's nothing like a pentium III though.
;) Compiling takes a bit longer so I just compile on one box and move the
binary over to the other if both boxes need it. They are both servers so X
isn't on there however I did have X on them when I was playing with them.
Redhat 6.0 had some problems with GNOME (suprise), but X ran well. Every
now and again X crapped out but I never took the time to fix it. Also I
had some problems running netscape on them. Other then netscape and X they
work like champs. 192 megs helps. The more RAM the better :)
Michael
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
> Mike Machado wrote:
>
> > I have done sparc linux on a sparcstation 1+, boy was that SLOW! But other
> > than the slowness it seemed to be ok. It was a while ago with redhat 4.2.
>
> My sparcbook is equivalent to a Sparcstation 5/85. Its not too bad
> speedwise, demonstrated by netbooting the Debian install kernel. It just
> needs more RAM.
>
> Cheers,
> Sean
>
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