From: Dave Lee (dblee_at_daves-domain.net)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 19:03:56 CET
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:03:56 -0700 From: Dave Lee <dblee@daves-domain.net> Message-ID: <20040226110356.B1732@daves-domain.net> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Watchout ...
Yes, I agree.... suse's sparc is "discontinued".
But weren't people using RH 6.0 on the SPARC for years after they dropped it?
I found 178 patches in:
ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/discontinued/sparc/update/7.3/patches.cont/
indluding:
10219 May 20 2003 glibc-31286
were there more available at an earlier date?
I did look at auroralinx.org but they don't seem too concerned with
supporting the older 32 sparc bit machines either.
I'm not a "power sparc" user. I'm just looking to run a SPARC 20 (32 bit) as
a headless backup server, name server and maybe a firewall to serve a small
local network with a DSL connection. My bet is that Suse 7.x will serve me
fine for this application. Right now I have 7.0 installed and it seems
very promising.
I'm still not sure I really will need the 2.4 kernel but I
do plan to try installing Suse 7.3 and maybe Debian 3.0. If everything
works OK I'll probably stick with Suse since not sure I want to take
the time to learn the "debian way" even though I'm sure its very good.
-Dave
> Dear Dave,
> dear listmembers,
> you said it on your own: "discontinued". The patches are gone. And there
> used to be a lot of patches.
> Nevertheless, try www.auroralinux.org instead!
> Take care
>
>
>
> Dieter
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Lee [mailto:dblee@daves-domain.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:43 PM
> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> Subject: [suse-sparc] RE [suse-sparc] Watchout ...
>
>
> Really?
> I just downloaded the 7.3 ISO's and updates from ftp.suse.com.....
> ***
>
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