sun4 status? [was Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)]

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Tue, 4 May 1999 12:42:02 +0200


Hi!

> > Ken Thompson is interviewed in this month's _IEEE Computer_ magazine
> > on UNIX and developments. At one point during the interview, Computer
> > asks him what he thinks of Linux. Here's his response (any typos are
> > mine, and I show italics via <em> and </em>):
>
> Oh haha... I can't believe this guy. Hahaha what a joke this guy is.
>
> Unreliable and Linux in the same sentence? He must be on some really good
> drugs, and if so I want some!

Notice that he was talking about non-i386 platforms... And really I've
seen sparclinux crashing and we are now having problems with 100mbit
ethernet going up and down...

BTW was anyone able to run 2.2.6 on sun4/330? It mounts / partition
but does not seem to launch init. Older versions were able to boot
with init=/sbin/init, but not with init=/bin/bash. Was anyone
successfull with sun4 lately?

Pavel

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