From james@suse.com Wed Mar 25 21:50:07 1998 From: james@suse.com To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: [S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: No Linux on Merced Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:50:07 +0100 Message-ID: <6fbu6f$ltb$1@Galois.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <[S.u.S.E. Linux] Re: No Linux on Merced> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============4135235081945972402==" --===============4135235081945972402== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi! We are working on our Alpha port as we speak. So, you won't be hearing any statements against other platforms from S.u.S.E. ;) Cheers! James > > The Red Hat folks came out to Internet World in Los Angeles and visited a= ssorted > > Linux Users Groups. They said support for non-Intel platforms is as much= as > > dead. Not enough of a market to make it worth the development expense= . I > Well I dont use redhat anyway, and my need for a Alpha version makes my > opinion more strong due to their latest statements. I was going to use > redhat linux on a alpha based system, however they are starting to tread > very thin ice with me...their commercial interests outweigh their > versatility, its time to can redhat and find a more flexible distributor. > =20 > > also found it odd that in discussing the upcoming versions and install/co= nfig > > features they kept saying "Windows 98 is going to...." Appears the comme= rcial > > world blues are hitting Linux well at least Red Hat. >=20 > With the sucky operational ability of redhat, suse and slackware tend to > get my vote depending on the task at hand...I know they dont do alpha > either but at least they have not taken a stand against the possibility of > it ---------------------------------------------------------------- S.u.S.E. - Home of German-engineered "S.u.S.E. Linux" 458 Santa Clara Avenue Oakland, CA 94610 USA Tel +1.510.835.7873 Fax +1.510.835.7875 http://www= .suse.com> Our mailing lists are functional! suse-announce-e -> Announcements from S.u.S.E. LLC=20 suse-linux-e -> Discussions about S.u.S.E. Linux suse-adabas -> ADABAS D RDBMS w/ S.u.S.E. Linux (bilingual)=20 To subscribe, send an email to majordomo(a)suse.com with=20 'subscribe ' in the body. ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo(a)suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e --===============4135235081945972402==--