[OT]Ultra SPARC prices, and Squeak on SPARC?

Cees de Groot cg at cdegroot.com
Thu May 16 18:18:54 UTC 2002


 <goran.hultgren at bluefish.se> said:
>On the other hand - Gentoo Linux has also started a SPARC port, and
>Gentoo is really squeezing performance out of the hardware - in Gentoo
>you compile everything yourself fully optimized... It is quite an
>amazing new distribution actually.
>
C'mon, Goran - who needs Linux on a $200 Sparc? It probably has Slowaris, just
replace '/sbin/init' with '/sbin/startsqueak' and you'll never notice the
difference with the same happening on a Linux box ;-)

(I'm jealous. I'm still looking for a decently priced box to be a full-time
Squeak platform).

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