On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:01:54PM -0500, Nate Sanders wrote:
> How does Debian work on a SS20? I have yet to see someone running it on
> a sparc. How well does it run? I would be using this as a workstation
> mainly. Just need X, Sound, and BitchX :-]

I run Debian on an IPX, and it runs fine. Its a little on my
IPX (but it do have dual heads ;) ), but it should run pretty nice
on a 20. Sound works OK on recent kernels, though sound
is too shoddy on my IPX to play mp3s :( .
 
> Anything I should go look into for more info about installing it?

Probably take a look at http://www.ultralinux.org/ for general
Sparc port info, and http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/ for
Debian Sparc stuff.

Oh looking further down the thread I see you've asked about
netscape.  Netscape support is a little shoddy. The only netscape
available for Sparc Linux is pretty old.  I want to say ~ 4.5, 
and its not available as a deb.  Search the debian-sparc list
for details on digging it up.  Mozilla runs fine on Sparc Linux, though
the version in Debian is a little old because of concerns about
the crypto in newer versions .

-- 
Jim Crumley                  |
crumley at fields.space.umn.edu |
Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378  |