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Personally I’d try Gentoo since a) it’s fun and b) the hardware can do it, but note this really hits the “lack of web browser” problem. Looking at Debian (which has a sparc64 ISO) it looks like they got to 62 or thereabouts. Linux is probably “next easiest” although note that for things like Firefox which have ISA dependencies it’s still not likely going to be close to current. One of the nice perks of Solaris is it has good binary compatibility, which means it can run some old but amusing programs (looking at you, Internet Explorer for UNIX.) Unfortunately as far as I know the newest Firefox for Solaris 10 is quite old (52.0.2 or thereabouts.) It’s certainly dated although note that since it had a very long lifetime it was continually refreshed with newer components, so a lot depends on the version you have. Solaris 10 should really “just work” once you have media. My suggestion is that since you have the machine, it makes sense to try out a range of systems, starting with the easiest, and that’s going to be Solaris. If these benchmarks are to be believed, linux was faster than SunOS itself…Īll of the BSDs list Thom’s server by name, which is encouraging.
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This 32-bit port was eventually dropped with the end of the service life of Debian Wheezy.Ĭurrently, there is no official Debian port for SPARC, but a full 64-bit SPARC port called sparc64 is supported by the Debian Ports team. After that, the 32-bit port required an UltraSPARC CPU and ran a 64-bit kernel. Support for pre-UltraSPARC machines was dropped with the end of service life of Debian Etch (see /Sparc32). The development of this architecture is halted (mailing list thread) as of 2012 because lack of manpower and/or interest in the community. (sorry, I had to break some links to avoid wordpress quotas)į/wiki/Architectures/SPARC#Status But assuming you can still get the boot media for these, there’s a chance they’ll work 🙂 Personally I’d give linux a try just for kicks, but you’re right it’s pretty niche and it looks like a lot of distros have dropped support over the years. Oracle obviously killed opensolaris, but the last version should work.ĭoes openindiana even work with sparc? I couldn’t find any information on sparc support. I could browse the file system and web ok.īesides, this is great hardware to run Solaris (or OpenIndiana or whichever fork is non=dead today).
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I actually ran windows on a sun workstation at uni under emulation to see if it worked. Qemu would need to do full x86_64 emulation. While we wait on those accessories to be delivered, I figured I might as well post a story in the meantime with a bunch of photos of the server.
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Since I’m still waiting on a few more accessories I needed to purchase in order to setup and use the server – a USB serial console cable and the aforementioned more powerful GPU – I can’t turn it on and use it quite yet. I’ve got numerous Sun Ultra/Sparc systems and SGI, HP PA-RISC, IBM iSeries, S/390 bits – looking for a DEC Alpha system for many years to complete my RISC collection! My top tip for these systems is to look at IT Disposal companies on eBay etc, although machines are becoming harder to find there are still bargains to be had as companies decommission early 2010’s gear.”
In Jon’s own words: “What to say about me? I’m now the managing director of a financial software/services firm, who’s been a computer nerd since childhood – I grew up with Atari 8-bit & Amigas, and they are still a passion – over the last few years, caught the retrocomputing bug but for ‘big iron’ systems I used to lust after in the late 90s or work on in my job early 2000s.
The machine has plenty of room for expansion, as well as the usual server features like dual power supplies, lots and lots of fans that no doubt will be incredibly loud, hot-swappable drive bays, remote management ports, and so on.
The machine has some serious specifications: Thanks to an incredibly generous donation by Jon Rushton, a reader from the UK, I’m now in possession of a SunFire V245 server (I did pay for shipping, of course). The first step in my crazy experiment to see if you can turn a Sun SPARC server into a workstation has been completed.
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