For how long will SuSE continue to produce security updates for SuSE-7.3 on ppc?
If SLES is not an option, is there a future for SuSE users on ppc?
Ingvar
On Fri, Nov 07, Ingvar Hagelund wrote:
For how long will SuSE continue to produce security updates for SuSE-7.3 on ppc?
see http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2003-Dec/0004.html
On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 04:31 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Fri, Nov 07, Ingvar Hagelund wrote:
For how long will SuSE continue to produce security updates for SuSE-7.3 on ppc?
see http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2003-Dec/0004.html
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Isn't this the last version for the PPC chip? How hard/what is needed to install the intel versions of newer onto PPC chips?
George
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 05:07:19PM -0500, george wrote:
Isn't this the last version for the PPC chip? How hard/what is needed to install the intel versions of newer onto PPC chips?
You cannot install the Intel version on a PPC (unless you run it in an emulator ;-).
If you have enough money, you can purchase the Enterprise Server for PPC. Otherwise you unfortunatelly have to use a different distribution.
Robert
Am Sonntag, 7. Dezember 2003 23:07 schrieb george:
Isn't this the last version for the PPC chip? How hard/what is needed to install the intel versions of newer onto PPC chips?
It is the last "normal" boxed-version. For my one I've recompiled SuSE 8.2 on PPC with a lot of updates (kernel 2.4.23 with alsa 1.0rc2, gcc 3.3.1, kde 3.1.4, OOo 1.1, IBM J2SDK 1.4.1, ... all security updates and so on) and packages not included in the IA32 version (for example pmud, pbbuttons). I've asked SuSE for month for allowance to make it public. I've got a lot of good response from developers and some help, when I had problems. But there's no response from SuSE's (or Novell's) lawyers.
I don't wan't to say it's a complete distribution. I don't have handbooks or special installation routines, but it's a pool of > 3000 RPMs and I think it would be a good base to do the missing things. And it's running stable on my old PowerBook G3.
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