Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:12:31 +1000 (EST) From: Q89029292 <q8902929@topaz.cqu.edu.au> Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.1001124095913.20782A-100000@topaz.cqu.edu.au> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Re: [SLE] SuSE Sparc 7.0: stable?
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Chris Wareham wrote:
> 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
>
>
I switched from redhat 6.0 a long time ago as it had many issues at that
time (S. Classic 4m leo frame buffer), I am currently using debian 2.2
which is very stable (read high usage and long uptime). The only thing
that goes splat (segfault) occasionally is Netscape.
N.B. I did experience Watchdog resets with xlockmore and xscreensaver
using debian 2.1 and promptly removed them, that was using the pre-release
of glibc2.1 and patches applied to a 2.1.x kernel, I haven't tried them
recently although at the time I sent in detailed bug reports using gdb
attached to the running process from an xterm on another computer. The
problem may be solved by now.
I haven't tried Suse yet although I do have a box set aside for it and
will in the near future.
Regards,
Peter Firmstone.
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