On Tuesday 26 March 2002 03:34, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: >>> Of course, I won't (and nobody will at Mandrake) answer any questions >>> regarding the agreement with SUN to distribute it or comments rumors like >>> "Is SUN buying Mandrake" ? Perhaps it is true, perhaps it is wrong ? :-)
>> It must be true, I emailed Sun about 3 months ago and suggested it. (-: >> Would that help or hinder the release of Mandrake 8.2 for Sparc? > Go ahead. Install RedHat & start porting cooker yourself. Nobody is > going to stop you :-) Wouldn't it be easier to do a complete Mandrake RPM rebuild for Sparc, install the Sparc system/RPMs on a drive in an Intel box using the Intel installer, swap the disk across to the Sparc box and maybe later rebuild the installer for Sparc there? Also, I have an SGI Indigo O2, which is MIPS based, that I'd like to get Mandrake 8.2 running on. I might have trouble finding a mainstream MIPS distro. Cheers; Leon
