Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 18:10:37 +0100 (CET) From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0011271736510.28282-100000@wiles.suse.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Re: [SLE] SuSE Sparc 7.0: stable?
Hi,
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Joshua Uziel wrote:
> * Chris Wareham <chris.wareham@catchword.com> [001123 09:00]:
>
> > 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.
>
> I can relate completely to your desire to standardize on a
> distribution. Before I joined SuSE (and before SuSE had a SPARC port
> of its distribution), I was running completely on both Redhat and
> Debian, because they had the what I felt were two best SPARC
> distributions. I'd like to think that SuSE joins them as the top
> three. (And there's ports of Caldera, Turbolinux, Mandrake and
> Slackware soon, so there are choices... not to mention OpenBSD and
> NetBSD, and of course, Solaris).
>
> For those who are standardized on RH and wish to stay that way, I
> would suggest waiting at least until a month after the release of 7.1
> for Intel machines... sometimes their SPARC releases are delayed a
> bit.
>
> Although I cannot comment on SuSE's plans for the SPARC port of the
> distribution, I can say that my job is to work on all things
> SPARC/Linux related for SuSE (and in general). Take this however you
> want... my plan is to work on keeping things reasonably up to date and
> happy.
>
> I'll see if I can get an official statement on this soon...
Sorry for the delay.
Here's the gist: we will continue to provide a SPARC distribution, at
least for download, but maybe not always in sync with the Intel release.
Since creating a boxed product depends heavily on the customer demand
(which we have not seen so far at a rate that would justify it), there
might not be a boxed version of SuSE Linux SPARC anytime soon - it simply
isn't worthwile, if there is not enough demand.
Bye,
LenZ
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