OpenPOWER9 Raptor Talos-II

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On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 9:26 PM, John Newman <jnn at synfin.org> wrote:
> I seem to recall that Oracle closed the latest stuff back up... (which seems absurd)

Yes they did, it is, and they lost.

> Is there still a current open source Solaris targeted to SPARC?
> I wonder how Linux or the BSDs run on SPARC...
> I have a few netra t1s collecting dust, haven’t been used in years....

Those were 64bit ultrasparc ii's. All OS below should be ok.

The opensource version of solaris kept going and is now here...
https://www.illumos.org/

https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/sparc.html
https://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sparc64/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux-supported_computer_architectures

NetBSD and Linux still run on just about anything, like DEC Alpha64 too.