Charon is the brand name of a family of legacy system emulators from Stromasys. Charon software emulates legacy hardware such as SPARC, VAX, Alpha, PDP, or HP 3000. Each emulator creates a virtual legacy environment on a standard Windows- or Linux-based host system, with or without VMware ESXi hypervisor configurations.

Linux and the Device Since Open Firmware is commonly used on PowerPC and SPARC platforms, the Linux support for those architectures has for a long time used the ./configure --build=x86_64-sun-solaris2.10 --host=x86_64-sun-solaris2.10 --target=sparc-sun-solaris2.10 You can then build additional compiler for each target you need to cross compile to. Compiling 32 bit and 64 bit executables on a platform which runs both is quite easy. Dec 06, 2007 · Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86. Compare the cost of "Linux" -meaning gnu/linux on x86 - to the cost of Unix -meaning Solaris on ultraSPARC- and you get a surprise: "Unix" is cheaper Currently have a spare Sun SPARC Blade and wanted to make use of it as a HOST for Virtual Machines. Can Red Hat Enterprise Linux be installed on a Sun SPARC blade server? Environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; Sun SPARC Blade What we want to do is run linux on sparc. Is there any distribution that will allow linux to run on a sparc CPU? The reason is because we want to completely remove the Solaris O/S and install linux. Then install the JVM that runs on Linux using the sparc cpu.

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Some companies ported games to Linux running on instruction sets other than x86, such as Alpha, PowerPC, Sparc, MIPS or ARM. Loki Entertainment Software ported Civilization: Call to Power , Eric's Ultimate Solitaire , Heroes of Might and Magic III , Myth II: Soulblighter , Railroad Tycoon II Gold Edition and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri with Kind of, Yes. There were SPARC ports of two LTS releases: 8.04 and 10.04 server. After 10.04 however no-one was actively maintaining the ports so that was the last one. 12.04 does not have a SPARC port, and I haven't heard of anyone working on the port.

"Some customers have run Linux on Sparc, but it's mostly in the high-performance computing market and it's not a supported environment," said IDC analyst Jean Bozman.

Linux and the Device Since Open Firmware is commonly used on PowerPC and SPARC platforms, the Linux support for those architectures has for a long time used the ./configure --build=x86_64-sun-solaris2.10 --host=x86_64-sun-solaris2.10 --target=sparc-sun-solaris2.10 You can then build additional compiler for each target you need to cross compile to. Compiling 32 bit and 64 bit executables on a platform which runs both is quite easy. Dec 06, 2007 · Cost comparison: Solaris/SPARC vs Linux/x86. Compare the cost of "Linux" -meaning gnu/linux on x86 - to the cost of Unix -meaning Solaris on ultraSPARC- and you get a surprise: "Unix" is cheaper Currently have a spare Sun SPARC Blade and wanted to make use of it as a HOST for Virtual Machines. Can Red Hat Enterprise Linux be installed on a Sun SPARC blade server? Environment. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5; Sun SPARC Blade