| 2003/06/24 | Article on upgrading a Debian/SPARC kernelAdam Shamblin has written an article about upgrading the kernel on a Debian/Linux SPARC machine. |
| 2003/05/23 | The Mandrake SPARC port has been revivedThere is work being done to revive the SPARC port for Mandrake linux. Information on the progress can be found here |
| 2003/01/19 | Aurora SPARC Project Build 1.0 is outThe Aurora SPARC Project has released build 1.0 (Ansel) This is the first stable build. Aurora is a project to port the current Red Hat packages to the SPARC and supports a graphical installer for some machines. Read the Announcement or get the build is from http://auroralinux.org/#download |
| 2003/01/02 | Sparc32/Linux kernel status pageRob Radez has created a web page with the status of the various kernel version for 32bit SPARC machines. http://osinvestor.com/sparc/ has information for both the 2.4.x and the 2.5.x kernels. |
| 2002/09/26 | Aurora SPARC Project Build 0.4 is outThe Aurora SPARC Project has released build 0.4 Aurora is a project to port the current Red Hat packages to the SPARC and supports a graphical installer for some machines. Read the Announcement or get the build is from ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/build-0.4/ |
| 2002/07/19 | Debian Releases Debian GNU/Linux 3.0Debian released the newest version of their distribution, 3.0 a.k.a. woody. More information on this release can be found in the press release. The distribution can be ftp’d from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ and CD images are available from http://www.debian.org/CD/ |
| 2002/07/02 | Aurora SPARC Project Build 0.3 is outThe Aurora SPARC Project has released build 0.3 Aurora is a project to port the current Red Hat packages to the SPARC. The build is available from ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/build-0.3/ |
| 2002/05/23 | Gentoo Linux now has bootable SPARC ISO imagesThe Gentoo Linux project has now made available bootable ISO CDROM images for the SPARC. You can get them from: http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/build/1.1a/ |
| 2002/04/21 | Gentoo Linux now has a SPARC/SPARC64 distributionGentoo Linux has released a SPARC version of their distribution. Gentoo is a linux distribution that is always built completely from source. They have a working egcs64 and a userland 32 system for UltraSparc. You can find installation tarballs here: http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/build/1.1a/ You can use them to bootstrap your own system. They don’t have netboot images or boot CDs yet (use the Debian ones for now) but stay tuned. No web based docs either at this moment. |
| 2002/02/25 | ROCK Linux SPARC ISO test images availableROCK Linux has made available cdrom images available for testing. They are not yet bootable. You can get them from: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~veninga/rock/ |
| 2001/12/04 | Aurora SPARC Project Build 0.2 is outThe Aurora SPARC Project has released build 0.2 Aurora is a project to port the current Red Hat packages to the SPARC. The build is available from ftp://auroralinux.org/pub/aurora/build-0.2/ |
| 2001/11/23 | SuSE Releases a SPARC version of SuSE Linux 7.3SuSE Linux AG has released the latest version 7.3 of SuSE Linux the for SPARC architecture from Sun Microsystems. You can read the announcement or download a version from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/7.3/iso/ |
| 2001/11/03 | Aurora SPARC Project Build 0.1 is outThe Aurora SPARC Project has released build 0.1 Aurora is a project to port the current Red Hat packages to the SPARC. (Since Red Hat is no longer supporting the SPARC architecture in the current releases) The build is available from http://aurora.linuxpower.org/build-0.1/ |
| 2001/09/11 | Info about running Linux on a JavastationKevin Boone has created a web page with lots of info about setting up Linux and XFree86 on a Javastation. |
| 2001/07/17 | Info for CP1400/CP1500/Netra-T1 PlatformsEric Brower wrote a great document about the technical details of the CP1400/CP1500/Netra-T1 Platforms. |
| 2001/05/15 | Opera browser available for UltraLinuxOpera has released a version of their browser compiled for Linux under SPARC processors. There are versions dynamically and statically linked with Qt. |
| 2001/04/14 | SuSE Releases a SPARC version of SuSE Linux 7.1SuSE Linux AG has released the latest version 7.1 of SuSE Linux the for SPARC architecture from Sun Microsystems. You can read the announcement or download a version from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/suse-sparc/ |
| 2001/02/04 | New Information pages running Linux on your SPARCLionel, trollhunter Bouchpan-Lerust-Juery has written a HOWTO for Linux on the SPARC and Brian Cirulnick has written a webpage on hot to get the most performance from your SPARC. |
| 2001/01/14 | New European mirror for www.ultralinux.orgPieter Krul has set up a mirror of these pages in the Netherlands. It is available at http://www.ultralinux.nl/ A big thanks to Pieter. |
| 2000/12/21 | Slackware for SPARCSlackware’s current tree now supports SPARC machines. More information is available in the News section of Slackware’s website. The SPARC tree is available for ftp at ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/unsupported/sparc/slackware-current/ and bootable ISO CD-ROM images are available at: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/sparc/slackware-current/iso/ |
| 2000/12/10 | Javastation Files AvailablePete Zaitcev has provided some tar files to help people get up and running on Sun Javastations. They are available in the links section. |
| 2000/12/05 | Additional Red Hat SPARC informationRed Hat has further said that it will continue to provide the unsupported SPARC edition in its Rawhide developers version. In addition the company could restart SPARC support if demand picks up. Earlier versions of the SPARC edition will still be supported. More information can be found in this CNET article |
| 2000/09/28 | No SPARC release from Red Hat for 7.0Red Hat has said that it won’t be releasing Red Hat Linux 7.0 for the SPARC platform due to low demand. UPDATE: Red Hat has further said that this does not necessarily mean that there won’t be a 7.1 or 7.2. And if they do decide to completely drop the SPARC platform they will turn it into a community project. |
| 2000/09/27 | Booting Linux on a Enterprise 10000Anton Blanchard of LinuxCare has got Linux booting on a 24 processor E10000. He has put up a page with more details including a very cool boot log (19149.62 BogoMIPS!) |
| 2000/09/14 | SuSE Releases a SPARC version of SuSE Linux 7.0SuSE Linux AG has announced a version of SuSE Linux for the SPARC architecture from Sun Microsystems. You can read the announcement or download a version from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc |
| 2000/09/14 | RealNetworks Releases a new version of RealPlayerRealNetworks has released updated RealPlayer7 software for the SPARC processor. Minimum requirement is a SPARC 20. You can download it here |
| 2000/08/15 | Debian Releases Debian GNU/Linux 2.2Debian released the newest version of their distribution, 2.2 a.k.a. potato. More information on this release can be found in the press release. The distribution can be ftp’d from: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ and CD images are available from http://cdimage.debian.org/ |
| 2000/08/01 | Updated CVSAnton Blanchard has set up mirroring of the CVS tree. Details of how to access it can be found at http://vger.samba.org/ |
| 2000/03/29 | Mandrakesoft Linux-Mandrake 7.0 for UltraSPARC available for downloadAlthough it’s a complete port (graphical installation included) of Linux-Mandrake 7.0/x86-final, it could still have some bugs, so please consider the current UltraSPARC version as beta-software. Download the ISO image at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3#usparc |
| 2000/03/25 | RedHat Inc. Releases RedHat Linux 6.2 for SPARC systemsVersion 6.2 is now available for SPARC and UltraSPARC-based systems. General info about 6.2 can be found at: RedHat Linux 6.2 |
| 2000/02/04 | Mandrakesoft Releases Linux-Mandrake 7.0 for UltraSPARC based systemsGeneral info about the UltraSPARC release can be found at: Mandrake Linux for UltraSPARCs |
| 1999/12/15 | RedHat Inc. Releases RedHat Linux 6.1 for SPARC systemsVersion 6.1 is now available for SPARC and UltraSPARC-based systems. General info about 6.1 can be found at: RedHat Linux 6.1 |
| 1999/10/24 | Updated Links PageThe Links page has been updated. More to come soon. |
| 1999/10/01 | Updated FAQPieter Krul has taken over the maintenance of the FAQ and has been doing a lot of work updating it. There are now almost 100 questions and answers. Let us know if you have any additions or corrections. |
| 1999/08/09 | Caldera Systems Releases OpenLinux 2.2 for SPARC systemsCaldera has ported version 2.2 of OpenLinux to Sun’s SPARC and UltraSPARC-based platforms. It is available for purchase from Caldera or for download on the Internet. Press Release |
| 1999/04/26 | RedHat Releases Red Hat Linux 6.0Red Hat software released the newest version of their distribution which includes support for the SPARC architecture. Press Release |
| 1999/04/24 | News, Linux, FAQ, and Distribution pages updated. The Mailing Lists, Linux and People will come soon. |
| 1999/04/03 | New Web Pages!I have finally got around to updating these web pages. The site will be only partially functional for the next couple of day until I get all the pages finished and integrated. Comments are appreciated! |
| 1999/04/03 | New domain ultralinux.org which should make it easier to remember where the pages are. |
| 1999/02/09 | Debian Releases Debian GNU/Linux 2.1Debian released the newest version of their distribution. This is the first release to support the SPARC Architecture. More Info |
| 1998/11/02 | RedHat Releases Red Hat Linux 5.2Red Hat software released the newest version of their distribution which includes support for the SPARC architecture. Press Release |