Yes,

Unless beta-test-runs become available (would love that) waiting is the only
thing we can do.
Last rumours I heard, was that sparc-32 is still problematic (in contrast to
ultra-sparc)

Don't know about the latest compiler, but I guess (!!!) the considerations
for 64-bit userland are for sparc not different
then for the linux port on PA-RISC (HP). On their latest version, the system
can fully handle 64-bit (lots of systems with >> 4GB available. 
But it was considered a complete waste of time for creating 64-bit userland
applications, yet.

Furthermore, I would not count on an OO port for linux/sparc. I'm subscribed
to the porting list of OpenOffice and that would be the first place to
detect any attempts. Porting a project such enormous big is not a single
person job. I tried go get some people to post OO to PA-RISC (either HP-UX
or linux), but all I could get was seven people, with only three having the
opportunity to compile something: My, Myself and I......

At home, I only have small machines (LX, SS4, and SS20), so not really
machines to start huge compilations on.
And at work (well as long as the company is not going bust) I would become
quite impopulair if I would "allocate" some of the U80 or E450 to run linux,
shame though...

Hans

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Scott A Micciche [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
        Sent:   Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:16 AM
        To:     Witvliet, Hans
        Cc:     'Scott Micciche'; Suse Mail List
        Subject:        RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?

        Thanks all, I'll await the 8.x release.  Maybe it will have gcc 3.1?
I
        utilize this on solaris and it works very well compiling 64 capable
        code.... maybe 64 bit userland is next for linux/sparc?

        On Tue, 25 Jun
        2002, Witvliet, Hans wrote:

        > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:03:04 +0200
        > From: "Witvliet, Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
        > To: 'Scott Micciche' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
        >      Suse Mail List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
        > Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?
        >
        > Hi Scott,
        >
        > Some time ago, same question was answered on the list.
        > No, there will not be an 8.0 release, next will be 8.1.
        > As the main 8.0 release is still quite fresh, I would not hold my
breath
        > until the release date <;-))
        >
        > Hans
        >       -----Original Message-----
        >       From:   Scott A Micciche [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
        >       Sent:   Tuesday, June 25, 2002 4:32 AM
        >       To:     Suse Mail List
        >       Subject:        [suse-sparc] SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?
        >
        >       Will there by an 8.0 release for the Sparc 32/64 platform?
I
        > haven't seen
        >       anything related to Sparc on the roadmap.  Thanks in
advance.
        >
        >       Scott Micciche
        >
        >
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