From: David Stadden (dstadden_at_socal.rr.com)
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 01:39:09 CET
From: David Stadden <dstadden@socal.rr.com> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:39:09 -0800 Message-Id: <1131323949.7460.22.camel@david.stadden.net> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Latest build
Good idea to move sparc and hp-ux to opensuse. Hope the development
moves forward.
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 00:40 +0100, Hans Witvliet wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 17:48 -0500, Huston wrote:
> >
> > No there isn't a recent build for sparc. This distribution is not
> > ported to sparc any more.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David Stadden
> > To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> > Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 5:01 PM
> > Subject: [suse-sparc] Latest build
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there a recent build of SuSE for sparc platform available
> > for download? On the ftp site it looks like there's a very old
> > build.
> >
> > David
>
> At last meeting in Nurnberg i tried to persued them to move all the
> other ports entirely to opensuse, (not just Sparc, but HP-PA also)
>
> As there will be no revenue coming from it, it is hard for them to have
> someone working at it. (and supporting it also.)
> Hence my suggestion for the move to opensuse and let the community do
> the rest ;-))
>
> Sparc is supported somewhere, have a look at auroralinux.org.
> Dennis is porting /recompiling a huge number of packages for Sparc
> ( http://aurora.fedoramirror.net/pub/aurora/ )
>
> And if you don't mind going back in time for ten years, you might try
> *bsd. Current best option (imho) install aurora 1.00, and upgrade to
> 1.92, and eventually Corona.
>
> Hans
>
>
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