Nov 13, 2019 · There has been some interest from House of Brick customers running on x86 Solaris about migrating to Linux. Unlike Sparc Solaris, where there is an endian conversion to move to an x86 platform, x86 Solaris is already little endian. So, it should be possible to move the data more easily than when an endian conversion is required.
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Dec 06, 2007 · Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86. Compare the cost of "Linux" -meaning gnu/linux on x86 - to the cost of Unix -meaning Solaris on ultraSPARC- and you get a surprise: "Unix" is cheaper
Setting Up a SPARCstation | Linux Journal Despite the general excellence of SPARC Linux, several problems with Red Hat's initial 4.0 release, which can spoil your whole day if you don't know about them, came to light only after the CD-ROM set was created. There are two files which you should look at, the Linux/SPARC errata and the general errata for whichever version you're loading.
What we want to do is run linux on sparc. Is there any distribution that will allow linux to run on a sparc CPU? The reason is because we want to completely remove the Solaris O/S and install linux. Then install the JVM that runs on Linux using the sparc cpu. I did look at CentOS, but I couldn't find a release that would run on sparc.
Linux at Sun - Sun's Linux resources ultralinux.org - The main site for the Linux SPARC port. sunhelp.org - Excellent reference site for Sun hardware and software. SPARC HOWTO - General information about Linux on SPARC. Slackware Links: SPARC Forum - Discussion of the Slackware SPARC port. SPARC ChangeLog - See the latest updates. Running Solaris 2.6 (sparc) on qemu-system-sparc in Linux Sep 22, 2018