On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 19:51 -0500, Huston wrote: > Sparc is supported by a number of other flavors of Linux...Debian supports > it, and a few others. However Suse does not, and I doubt very seriously if > Novell cares if it is supported. > > Shawn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hans Witvliet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:40 PM > Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Latest build > > > > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 17:48 -0500, Huston wrote: > >> > >> No there isn't a recent build for sparc. This distribution is not > >> ported to sparc any more. > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: David Stadden > >> To: [email protected] > >> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 5:01 PM > >> Subject: [suse-sparc] Latest build > >> > >> > >> > >> Is there a recent build of SuSE for sparc platform available > >> for download? On the ftp site it looks like there's a very old > >> build. > >> > >> David > > > > At last meeting in Nurnberg i tried to persued them to move all the > > other ports entirely to opensuse, (not just Sparc, but HP-PA also) > > > > As there will be no revenue coming from it, it is hard for them to have > > someone working at it. (and supporting it also.) > > Hence my suggestion for the move to opensuse and let the community do > > the rest ;-)) > > > > Sparc is supported somewhere, have a look at auroralinux.org. > > Dennis is porting /recompiling a huge number of packages for Sparc > > ( http://aurora.fedoramirror.net/pub/aurora/ ) > > > > And if you don't mind going back in time for ten years, you might try > > *bsd. Current best option (imho) install aurora 1.00, and upgrade to > > 1.92, and eventually Corona. > > > > Hans > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > Wether Novel cares about it? Novel certainly not. (Correct me if I'm wrong) Guess they consider it a bottomless pit, with no chance of any ROI. People at SuSE do, albeit a very small number. >From what i recollect, those ports were sparked off (excusez le mot) as a private project from one or two people within SuSE.
One of the reasons (there are probably more) that currently nothing is done for sparc, is that all availabe machines are running Slowaris, for nfs-compatibility tests for the main distro's. So mainly lack of iron. And HP-PA is currently a one-man's job. (lack of other resources) Considering hardware, I wonder how much of rebuilding can be done with cross-compilation. I have some SUN-4m and 4u machines around, but nothing in the same speed-class as my intels... (I thought thoses X-tools were even on the distro, not?) And for Aurora; Yes they run on 4m machines: i have a SS20-smp running it. My Sparc-4 refuses, but that seems to be hw-related. Hans -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
