Message-ID: <3A1D39AF.3030501@catchword.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 15:37:19 +0000 From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@catchword.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Re: [SLE] SuSE Sparc 7.0: stable?
Lenz Grimmer wrote:
>
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Fabrizio Poggi wrote:
>
>> as you know, Red Hat has declared that the Sun Sparc platform will be
>> no supported in future and recently SuSE announce the support of Sparc
>> architecture in 7.0 release. My SS5 at work run now a 6.2 Red Hat
>> (running slightly slow, some minor problems); before the announcement
>> of SuSE, I was thinking to cut-off RH6.2 with a NetBSD solution. Now
>> have some doubts. Any suggestion about, or previous experience with
>> SuSE7 Sparc Edition (from the point of view of stability)?
>
> I am sure, the people over in suse-sparc can tell you more about this.
>
In reply to Fabrizio:
RedHat have not dropped support for the SPARC architecture[1]. They
didn't see enough of a market to justify a 7.0 release, but a 7.1
release for SPARC is likely. The recent updates to the SPARC RawHide
tree back this up as well. Personally, I'm going to wait around for
RedHat 7.1, and if this doesn't materialise then I will switch to
SuSE. Note that OpenBSD and NetBSD aren't an option if you're using
a 24bit framebuffer like the Leo.
Chris
[1] see www.ultralinux.org
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