[PROGSOC-ANNOUNCE] Orcus - Prince of the Undead

Anand Kumria (wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au)
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:32:12 +1000 (EST)


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As some of you may know Anton has been working on porting Linux to the
Sun4 architecture. In the last couple of days, Anton has made remakrable
progress, so much so, that we now have the world's first Sun4 machine
running Linux.

Now that the initial implementation is done, Anton needs help discovering
kernel realted bugs. To do this he needs testers. Anton has setup a
publically available machine which any ProgSoc member can make use of. In
order to connect to orcus you will need to be on either geryon or ftoomsh.

I'd like to congratulate Anton on his sucess and thanks him for all the
work and energy has has put into ProgSoc. The remainder of this email is
from Anton.

Regards,
Anand.

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Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 23:12:42 +1000 (EST)
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@nospam.lister.flex.com.au>

$ telnet orcus.progsoc.uts.edu.au
Trying 138.25.6.7...
Connected to orcus.progsoc.uts.edu.au.
Escape character is '^]'.

Red Hat Linux release 4.2 (Biltmore)
Kernel 2.0.30 on a sparc
login:

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What's this? A sun sparc running linux?

Linux has been running on the newer sparcs for over a year now, but not
on any of our machines. Until now.

After a couple of false starts, it is finally here - Linux for sun4
architecture. The majority of this port has been completed by progsoc
members (well me) using spare progsoc machines. At the moment only one
class of sun4 works, and there is only an ethernet driver (no SCSI yet).
More will come.

If you have wanted to get into kernel hacking, here is your opportunity. I
won't be able to do much until after the exams, but I hope to meet with
anyone interested and discuss what needs to be done.

So if you are interested, email me.

If you feel inclined, you can telnet into orcus and have a look. You can only
do this from a machine within progsoc.

Anton
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Anton Blanchard anton@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au
Computer Systems Engineering Student anton@nospam.lister.flex.com.au
University of Technology http://www.progsoc.uts.edu.au/~anton/
Sydney, Australia

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