Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/11/19 4:18 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > The Oracle folks I spoke with have zero clue about it. Zero. > Less than zero would be that no one even knows that they still sell > sparc systems and others are just all about the database and cloud > and still others are even more confused. However the company makes > money. Somehow. That's not unusual for big companies though. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/11/19 10:05 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On 5/11/19 3:37 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: A few folks from Oracle got back to me and let me know that they don't have Linux on sparc at all. Period. Some stupid sales rep just says to me "yes, sure, we run that !" when in fact he hasn't a damn clue. That's not correct though. Here's some proof: https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/ https://blogs.oracle.com/wim/oracle-linux-6-for-sparc What's true is that Oracle first poured resources into Linux on SPARC and later decided to drop it. They even ported things like Valgrind and Golang to Linux for SPARC (although the latter was initially ported to Solaris/SPARC). So there is no Linux on sparc as far as Oracle is concerned. Nobody gives a damn about Solaris anymore so I don't know what they are smoking at Oracle but it is very weird stuff to be sure. You can still download it here: http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/linux-oracle-sparc/ The Oracle folks I spoke with have zero clue about it. Zero. Less than zero would be that no one even knows that they still sell sparc systems and others are just all about the database and cloud and still others are even more confused. However the company makes money. Somehow. dc
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/11/19 3:37 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > A few folks from Oracle got back to me and let me know that they don't > have Linux on sparc at all. Period. Some stupid sales rep just says to > me "yes, sure, we run that !" when in fact he hasn't a damn clue. That's not correct though. Here's some proof: > https://oss.oracle.com/projects/linux-sparc/ > https://blogs.oracle.com/wim/oracle-linux-6-for-sparc What's true is that Oracle first poured resources into Linux on SPARC and later decided to drop it. They even ported things like Valgrind and Golang to Linux for SPARC (although the latter was initially ported to Solaris/SPARC). > So there is no Linux on sparc as far as Oracle is concerned. Nobody > gives a damn about Solaris anymore so I don't know what they are smoking > at Oracle but it is very weird stuff to be sure. You can still download it here: > http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/packages/linux-oracle-sparc/ Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `-GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2019-05-09
On 5/9/19 10:06 PM, Rick Leir wrote: Oracle Linux .. for Intel processors? Please ask him about Oracle Linux for Sparc. I would like to give it a try if they have it. Thanks -- Rick A few folks from Oracle got back to me and let me know that they don't have Linux on sparc at all. Period. Some stupid sales rep just says to me "yes, sure, we run that !" when in fact he hasn't a damn clue. So there is no Linux on sparc as far as Oracle is concerned. Nobody gives a damn about Solaris anymore so I don't know what they are smoking at Oracle but it is very weird stuff to be sure. -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken GreyBeard and suspenders optional
