Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 15:37:35 -0600 From: "Eduardo J. Vega Arguedas" <edvega@racsa.co.cr> Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020308153700.039c6ec0@pop.racsa.co.cr> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Will there be a SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?
And what about the Support for Sun blade 100 ?
It crash just at the start of the installation ?
Just asking... =(
>On Fri, Mar 08, Paolo Marcheschi wrote:
>
> > This is a very interesting question, It seems there is a huge lack of
> > support here!! Where are the suse experts. I think There are a lot of
> > bugs in the distribution, Is there a SUSE staff person to speak with, in
> > this list ?
>
>What did you expect? That you get free support for a free product?
>There are SuSE employes on this list and if they have time they
>will answer questions. But even this form of support costs something,
>and if it is only our free time.
>
>Why do you think does Red Hat and Mandrake stop their SPARC support?
>You cannot refinance it over selling boxes. Remember how expensive a
>UltraSPARC is and which different hardware you need to support a wide
>range of SPARC hardware. No Linux Distributor has so much money only
>to give something back to the Linux comunity for free.
>
>The bad news: For 8.0, as in the past, I will skip one version.
>The good news: We will continue with 8.1, if I'm able to get more and
>faster UltraSPARCs (Hey, where are the people from Sun on this list?
>Since Sun mentioned SuSE Linux for SPARC in their Linux announcement,
>maybe they can start loaning me newer and faster hardware?)
>My few current ones are far to slow to compile current glibc/gcc and
>qt.
>
>But I don't think that 32bit SPARCs will be supported any longer:
>it is impossible to use our current installer with kernel 2.2
>and kernel 2.4 is still far away from running stable. It is possible
>to configure a minimal kernel which runs on most of the 32bit SPARCs,
>but this kernel misses to much important features. And I don't see
>a kernel developer looking at this :-(
>
>Now to the known, four bugs:
>
>- Some people have problems with missing SUN labels. As already
> written, at least twice, on this list: Use the expert partitioner,
> select "extra options", clear the boot block and reread the partition
> table. This always works fine for me.
>
>- ADSL support: I have some reports that it works fine and some that
> it does not work. Since I don't have the posibility to test it, I
> cannot look at it.
>
>- If you load the UK keyboard mapping into the X11 server, the machine
> crashes. I don't know what happens here, and the X11 developers are
> busy with other things and don't have the time to look at it at the
> moment.
>
>- On 32bit SPARCs the installer does not identify CD2-CD5 correct,
> a problem due the fact that I had to use the 32bit kernel.
>
>
>I think for the third SuSE Linux/SPARC release this is not so bad ;-)
>
> Thorsten
>
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