> it?  In particular, if some of the hardware got supported later than
> the rest, when did the various support bits go in?  It'd be a pain to
> pick up the machine only to find that it can't run the same version as
> the rest of the house machines.

For any sparc64 machine you realy want to run something quite -current.
Less than a week old now. You can get by with anything from this year, but
there are compiler issues.

Martin