From: Huston (shuston_at_ohiohills.com)
Date: Mon Nov 07 2005 - 01:51:37 CET
Message-ID: <001501c5e335$697d0520$0b00a8c0@hustonsmain> From: "Huston" <shuston@ohiohills.com> Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 19:51:37 -0500 Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Latest build
Sparc is supported by a number of other flavors of Linux...Debian supports
it, and a few others. However Suse does not, and I doubt very seriously if
Novell cares if it is supported.
Shawn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Witvliet" <hwit@a-domani.nl>
To: <suse-sparc@suse.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Latest build
> 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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