Re: [suse-sparc] Will there be a SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?

From: Thorsten Hahn (hahn_thorsten@gmx.de)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 13:47:10 PST

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    From: "Thorsten Hahn" <hahn_thorsten@gmx.de>
    Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 22:47:10 +0100
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Will there be a SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?
    

    Dear list, lieber Thorsten,

    english is not my native language, but I hope you can understand what I want
    to say:

    > What did you expect? That you get free support for a free product?
    Perhaps it would be nice starting a faq? Reading this list 5 months, it
    seems that many questions appearing were answered weeks ago. I can write
    something about my experience with older systems. I tried Solaris and NetBSD
    and must say, it was much easier for me (having some experience with SuSE
    i386) to install a running system with 7.3 than with the (bugfree?)
    Unix-systems. NetBSD e. g. is destroying my X-Windows everytime I´m ejecting
    a floppy...

    > 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?
    I cannot believe that there´s no way for SuSE and SUN to support you in this
    question.

    > 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.
    This will hurt me. I hope someone will develop a stable 2.4-32bit Kernel.
    Where are you, guys?

    > - 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.

    I´m running a LX at this moment as router, connected to t-online´s T-DSL (a
    german ADSL-derivate with 768 down/128 up) with roaring-penguin on eth0 and
    an Antares-Lance-10Base2-Card as eth1 for my LAN. I tried the same on my SS
    1+ and a SS 2, both times without any troubles. Only reason to use a
    OneDiskLinux-Router on i386 normally is the low-noise & temperature
    controlled fan...

    So thank you very much for this release and many CPUs for the future

    Thorsten Hahn

    P. S.: Was machst Du mit drei Litern Baileys???

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