Message-ID: <3A1D4DFD.90501@catchword.com> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 17:03:57 +0000 From: Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@catchword.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Re: [SLE] SuSE Sparc 7.0: stable?
Bob Drzyzgula wrote:
>
> This does sort of bring up the question, however, about
> SuSE's plans for SPARClinux. Shortly after releasing it, it
> was stated on this mailing list that SuSE's plans for the
> future of this product would "depend on feedback". I'm sort
> of wondering -- what sort of feedback would be required
> for SuSE/SPARC to move ahead? Certainly they can't base
> it on sales. I think that, if someone is going to pick a
> Linux distribution for their SPARC machines, they would
> like to have a reasonable expectation that the product
> will be maintained and extended.
>
You've hit the nail on the head there.
I've invested a serious amount of time and effort into
learning the nuts and bolts of RedHat Linux - and I was
very disappointed when release 7.0 for SPARC didn't
materialise. The only other system I know in depth is
OpenBSD, but I have used this exclusively on Intel
machines due to the limited framebuffer support.
If I was to move to SuSE's distribution, I would also
be inclined to install it onto my Intel machines as well.
But before I do this I would need to be confident that
SuSE are commited to producing new releases for all the
architectures I use. Otherwise, I would have to seriously
consider dropping my use of SPARC machines and concentrate
on the Linux distribution I already know.
So if anyone from SuSE is reading this mailing list, please
consider your SPARC distribution as a loss leader if
nothing else. I am sure there are other people like me who
use a mixture of architectures and would like to
standardise on one distribution.
Chris
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