Hi Justin, Am Montag, 20.01.03, um 16:58 Uhr (Europe/Rome) schrieb Justin Davies:
I know this may sound over the top, but why don't we just make it ourselves ? Olaf, the ppc kernels you work on, do you release the changes ? Are they still workable on the end user PPC systems, ibpook optimisations etc ?
All we have to do is then have our autobuild to spit out the ppc distro.
Olaf, how viable is this from a legal perspective and the stance of suse on this ?
Seeing my own time-limit, it doesn't sound very convincing to me to start another Linux distribution without (?) urgent need for. Especially not for the small "market" of PPC users (who, like me, seem to get more and more comfortable with OSX :-/ And - as Kevin pointed out in his mail - there are still good working distributions for almost any need. The more important question to me is: Is there a distribution that gives me an (as far as possible) identical working environment on my Laptop (PPC), some desktop machines I use (x86 and PPC) and (soon) on a server (x86). And (as hobby-evangelist :-) that I can advise other people to use, even if they are newbies - at least as long as I can be contacted for help. So, therefore, the answer seems to be clearly Debian - or has anyone any better suggestions? Among other reasons, there will never be problems like in this case with SuSE: stopping the development because there are not enough users. Ciao Bernd
Justin
(ex-suse employee :o)
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 15:51, Bernd Kulawik wrote:
Hi PPC-linux users,
Here's what I got today from SuSE as answer on my question for a new PPC release:
"Leider muss ich Sie enttäuschen, denn eine neue PPC-Distribution von SuSE Linux ist wegen verhältnismäßig geringen Nachfrage nicht geplant.
Es wird lediglich für den professionellen Einsatz auf Serverhardware den SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for i-series and p-series geben.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
SuSE PreSales Detlef Wiese"
that is:
"I'm sorry, but a new PPC Distribution by SuSE Linux is not planned because of the small amount of interest. There will be only the SuSE Linux Enterprise 8 for professional usage on server hardware [IBM] i-series and p-series. .... "
because I also prefer to have the same distribution on different hardware (x86 at work and PPC private) I would say: let's switch to Debian :-)
Bernd
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