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Re: [SLE] [Slightly OT] Linux on Sparc
  • From: mha@xxxxxxx (Michael Hasenstein)
  • Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 13:23:24 +0100 (MET)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0002141321100.25826-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Pep Serrano wrote:

> As far as I know there's no version of SuSE for Sparc platforms
> (perhaps guys at SuSE can correct what I said and give us a great
> surprise). A couple of years ago I ran with RedHat in a UltraSparc
> machine at my university and it was really fastest than Slowaris.
> Someone in this list talked about SparcLinux... but I don't remember.
> Maybe it's a new distro... Anyone can remember???

At least here at SuSE, the kernel is not really stable on Ultras. If
there's any considerable load, it crashes after a few hours. We also tried
the Red Hat version of course ;-)
As long as this is not fixed, there'll be no Sparc version from us, I'm
afraid. We've got a reputation to loose.


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