Yes, I agree.... suse's sparc is "discontinued". But weren't people using RH 6.0 on the SPARC for years after they dropped it?
I found 178 patches in: ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/sparc/update/7.3/patches.cont/ indluding: 10219 May 20 2003 glibc-31286 were there more available at an earlier date? I did look at auroralinx.org but they don't seem too concerned with supporting the older 32 sparc bit machines either. I'm not a "power sparc" user. I'm just looking to run a SPARC 20 (32 bit) as a headless backup server, name server and maybe a firewall to serve a small local network with a DSL connection. My bet is that Suse 7.x will serve me fine for this application. Right now I have 7.0 installed and it seems very promising. I'm still not sure I really will need the 2.4 kernel but I do plan to try installing Suse 7.3 and maybe Debian 3.0. If everything works OK I'll probably stick with Suse since not sure I want to take the time to learn the "debian way" even though I'm sure its very good. -Dave > Dear Dave, > dear listmembers, > you said it on your own: "discontinued". The patches are gone. And there > used to be a lot of patches. > Nevertheless, try www.auroralinux.org instead! > Take care > > > > Dieter > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Lee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:43 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [suse-sparc] RE [suse-sparc] Watchout ... > > > Really? > I just downloaded the 7.3 ISO's and updates from ftp.suse.com..... > *** > ================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
