Fedora for spark system

[Sumeet Pal Singh]

Hi
is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86.
which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and friendly
to use.
if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running spark
system.
thanks
sps

[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
>  Hi
>  is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86.
>  which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and
>  friendly to use.
>  if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running
>  spark system.
>  thanks
>  sps 
Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system.  You can also run
Solaris 10 ono x86 systems.  Available at no cost now as well.

[Naoki]

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On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:36 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
>  On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
>  > Hi
>  > is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86.
>  > which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and
>  > friendly to use.
>  > if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running
>  > spark system.
>  > thanks
>  > sps
>  
>  Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system.  You can also run
>  Solaris 10 ono x86 systems.  Available at no cost now as well.

[John Summerfield]

Scot L. Harris wrote:
>  On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
>  
> >Hi
> >is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86.
> >which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and
> >friendly to use.
> >if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running
> >spark system.
> >thanks
> >sps
>  
>  
>  Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system.  You can also run
>  Solaris 10 ono x86 systems.  Available at no cost now as well. 
or if your disk isn't big enough for Solaris, try Debian. If it's really 
old (I have a luncbox here, and you didn't say "ultra" or "54")
and I 
installed RHL 6.2 on that.




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[Naoki]

Not wanting to start anything here but..  wouldn't sparc be much more
useful (wanted, widespread) than ia64? ;)

On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 12:32 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
>  Scot L. Harris wrote:
>  > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
>  > 
>  >>Hi
>  >>is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86.
>  >>which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and
>  >>friendly to use.
>  >>if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running
>  >>spark system.
>  >>thanks
>  >>sps
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system.  You can also run
>  > Solaris 10 ono x86 systems.  Available at no cost now as well.
>  
>  or if your disk isn't big enough for Solaris, try Debian. If it's really 
>  old (I have a luncbox here, and you didn't say "ultra" or "54")
> and I 
>  installed RHL 6.2 on that.
>

[John Summerfield]

Naoki wrote:
>  Not wanting to start anything here but..  wouldn't sparc be much
> more
>  useful (wanted, widespread) than ia64? ;) 
Ultrasparc is 64-bit Sparc from Sun
Sparc64 is similar, from Fujitsu.
TI is in there somewhere too, but I think only as a CPU & chipset 
manufacturer.

"sparc" generally means 32-bit CPUs. They're faily old.



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[Naoki]

Ahh symantics :)

Nobody has used 32-bit chips for about a decade so it's pretty safe to
assume I mean 64-bit.

The new T1 CPUs would be a preferred platform over IA64 I'm sure?!



On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 12:57 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
>  Naoki wrote:
>  > Not wanting to start anything here but..  wouldn't sparc be much more
>  > useful (wanted, widespread) than ia64? ;)
>  
>  Ultrasparc is 64-bit Sparc from Sun
>  Sparc64 is similar, from Fujitsu.
>  TI is in there somewhere too, but I think only as a CPU & chipset 
>  manufacturer.
>  
>  "sparc" generally means 32-bit CPUs. They're faily old.
>

[James Wilkinson]

Naoki wrote:
>  Not wanting to start anything here but..  wouldn't sparc be much
> more
>  useful (wanted, widespread) than ia64? ;) 
I suspect that the reason is finance...

I know Intel put a lot of money into ensuring IA64 software was
available and working well. I strongly suspect that Intel made it
worth-while for Red Hat to support RHEL on Itanium. (It's not unusual:
Windows NT 4 came on a CD with software for four processor families:
x86, PowerPC, Alpha and MIPS. All but x86 were dropped during the
lifespan of NT 4 when the owners of the chips stopped paying for the
support).

Clearly, if Intel and Red Hat have any agreement, it hasn't stopped Red
Hat from supporting Opteron or Power (or IBM's mainframes). But it has
kept the Itanium port alive. (I'd be surprised if IBM weren't helping
Red Hat with the S390 port).

I very much doubt that Solaris-loving Sun would want to fund Linux on
*Sparc, and I doubt that there are enough people who'd want to run RHEL
on *Sparc to provide enough revenue from sales. (These days, if you want
*Sparc, it's probably because you want to run Solaris-on-*Sparc, or for
embedded purposes).

Last I checked, both Fedora and RHEL were forked from the same Red Hat
"Rawhide" development tree.

James.

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[Scot L. Harris]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 23:32, John Summerfied wrote:
>  Scot L. Harris wrote:
>  > On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 22:05, Sumeet Pal Singh wrote:
>  > 
>  >>Hi
>  >>is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86.
>  >>which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and
>  >>friendly to use.
>  >>if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running
>  >>spark system.
>  >>thanks
>  >>sps
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Solaris 10 would be the best OS for a sparc system.  You can also run
>  > Solaris 10 ono x86 systems.  Available at no cost now as well.
>  
>  or if your disk isn't big enough for Solaris, try Debian. If it's really 
>  old (I have a luncbox here, and you didn't say "ultra" or "54")
> and I 
>  installed RHL 6.2 on that.
>   
A number of years ago I loaded RH 4.2 on an old Sun box, I think it was
an LX?  Not sure if that is the correct designation or not.  Ran it for
a couple of years.  Still have the CDs for it.  But that Sun box is long
gone.  

Solaris 10 has some really nice features.  Have been considering setting
up a box or two with that sometime in the near future.

[Thomas Widhalm]

>  is Fedora for spark system as good as it is for x86.
>  which linux distro/other os is easy to install on spark system and friendly
>  to use.
>  if someone works on them please contact me, having problems running spark
>  system.
>  thanks
>  sps 
I think you could use Nexenta. Its the OpenSolaris 10 kernel with debian 
packages. I'm not too sure, but I think there is a UltraSparc Version.

Regards,
Thomas