On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:29, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > Jonathan Andrews wrote: > > > Not being a Debian user before now I have no idea who maintains the apt > > archive, do they need help porting or is it just a slow process to > > update? > > It's a very long story. Essentially, things get "dropped" regularly from > configuration scripts -- like understanding that sun's have sbus frame > buffer, sunmouse drivers, etc. They get a binary right, and then the > stuff gets dropped again. If you know what the guys tend to do wrong, > you're okay, because all the code's there. > > Telling them doesn't help much either; they tend to say that they don't > have Sparc boxes at home. Your best bet is to offer to beta-test, or... > > 1) Aurora Sparc dist (RedHat 8) > 2) SuSE Sparc > 3) gentoo Sparc > 4) Slackware Sparc > 5) Mandrake (?) > > RedHat doesn't acknowledge Aurora; SuSE openly doesn't support theirs; > Mandrake keeps theirs around on the ftp server. All are community > supported. Difference is, guys doing the ports actually have the machines. > > Not that I'm blasting Debian; you see, they have a guy in change of X, > and guy in charge of gcc... Not a guy in charge of Sparcs, Alphas, etc. > The X maintainers truly don't have sparcs, that's why they mess up. And > of course, the code COMPILES... >
Thanks for the info :-) I shake your hand as the only person this week more bitter and cynical than me :-) :-) Whats gentoo sparc like ? Has anybody had a go - if linux going to be difficult it might as well be very difficult ! Jon
