On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 16:26, Sid Boyce wrote:
Fergus Wilde wrote:
Is the SuSE SPARC port officially dead?
Certainly looks that way, Aurora based on Fedora seems to be the only port still alive, for the big stuff, Fujitsu was working on a port, but I don't know if they still are, I shall have to ask my ex-colleagues about that one. Meanwhile Sun are promoting Solaris 10 like crazy - the most advanced operating system there is, Sun haven't heard of Z/OS of course. My first install of beta-63 SPARC didn't excite me and I'm now downloading beta-72 to see if it's really improved. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====
Hi Sid, One of the biggest problems, perhaps THE biigest problems, is the support for the older 32-bit machines, SUN-4M. Solaris-10 and fost of the linux-ports runs fine on Ultra machines, but don't install latest solaris on a sparcstation. (And if you suffer from hyper-activity, just start Open-Office on a regular Sparc-Station-4: that will learn you the true meaning of the word patience...) And for a very, very long time, kernels were broken for 32-bit machines. As people at home tend to have older hardware, so linux support for them is essential, just for 64-bit machines won't do. That's why it takes such a long time between aurora release 1.00 and 2.00 (currently 1.98) Hans