Hi, On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Jon Pennington wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 17:44:29 -0700, Mr. M wrote:
AFAIK, the Multia is no longer in production. Yes, there still are quite
a few "floating around" but why would SuSE want to spend the time/money/man hours/etc. to support dead hardware? After all there are other distros that run on the Multia. Have you tried Debian?
You're right about not being in production. As I said before, Stampede is doing all of their Alpha development on Multias, so that's probably the direction I'll go if SuSE doesn't 'tweak' the stuff for their own users. Who knows, I might even do a little hacking myself (hasn't happened yet) and make it work. My question then becomes 'What makes the Multia so hard to deal with?' I've seen the HOWTO for Red Hat/Multia, so it can't be that hard. SuSE/Multia would just be nice to have, that's all. There is always FreeBSD...
As far as 'a few of them floating around', as I understand it, the DECStation Multia family was DEC's best-selling workstation-class product. My information could be wrong, but I'll say that I've never seen a DEC workstation that isn't a Multia (my frame of reference is a little limited).
While catching up with my E-Mail, I noticed a message on our suse-axp mailinglist. Someone managed to install SuSE AXP on a Multia! There were some issues, but it worked somehow. Check the mailing list archive for the full story. Bye, LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany