SPARC-HOWTO.

• Index
• Preface.
• SPARC, which one ?
• Buying a SPARC computer.
• SPARC based laptops
• The wonderful SparcStation Voyager
• Sun's Netra servers
• Sun's Enterprise servers
• Tatung's Workstations
• Tatung's SPARC Servers
• Fujitsu's supercomputers
• Linux on SPARC: 2 kernels.
• Choosing a distribution.
• Installing Linux
• Working with the Openboot.
• Hard drive buses.
• CDROM: specific settings.
• SILO.
• Compiling a kernel
• Keyboard and mouse.
• X Window.
• SMP.
• The sound.
• Serial port.
• Ressources.
• Thanks and Credits.
• Copyright, Disclaimer and Trademarks
• Revision History.

4. SPARC based laptops

There exists SPARC based, laptops.

They are not very widespread but, they are actually very good SPARC workstations.

• SparcBook 1:
• SparcBook 2:
• Tadpole SparcBook 3GX: This is a 100Mhz MicroSPARC II (TI) with a Weitek P9100 frame buffer and a screen resolution of 800x600. GNU/Linux runs on it The PCMCIA, internal modem and power management are not supported at the time of this writing.

There exists a Linux Mobile Guide that provides you with the needed informations about GNU/Linux on laptops. You can read it there: http://www.tuxmobil.org/Mobile-Guide.db/Mobile-Guide.html

Today there are some manufacturers of SPARC based laptops. You can access their websites at

• Tadpole: http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/html/
• Nextcomputing: http://www.nextcomputing.com At least one of their laptops, the NextBlade 150 is advertised as being capable to run both Solaris and the RedHat GNU/Linux.