On Friday 02 November 2001 6:13 pm, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: > Hmmm... why are all the distro's ceasing sparc support? > > Is it: > - difficult to get the specs of the hardware; > - not enough developers; > - Sun's hostile (??) attitude against Linux (at least most of the Sun > people I worked with); > - not enough sparc boxes on the market (must be more sun boxes than > alpha's and RedHat is still doing alpha); > - not enought revenue (same for alpha probably).
One reason might be that the Sun boxes, do require good monitors, and these are not dumped. I tried with an old IBM 17" screen, on my Sparcstation5 and it showed nothing, so I had to shift to my 19" NOKIA 446XS. My son said that it was previously run with a very good 21" Sun screen. Ruairi Hickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, pointed me to SuSe Sparc which might be continued. regards guran -- Mandrake Linux 8.2 Cooker kernel-2.4.13-2mdk per 200111010218
