[sane-devel] A modern, free OS for SPARC (Re: Proposal to remove autoconf-generated files from the source repository)

Olaf Meeuwissen paddy-hack at member.fsf.org
Thu Jun 20 12:29:31 BST 2019


Hi Perry,

Perry Hutchison writes:

> "r. a. schmied" <uwppp at flash.net> wrote:
>> third part 2: how about linux for sun4u sparc
>> hardware?  i've not found a release or even
>> a hint that such might be possible without
>> substantial additional effort.
>
> Had you considered FreeBSD?  It supports quite a few sparc64 machines:
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/hardware.html#proc-sparc64

:+1:
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