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On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 15:02, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Is the SuSE SPARC port officially dead?
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB
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Hi Fergus, Sorry to say, yes. Although there was never an official notice, the 7.3-release was the latest for the Sparc-hardware. AFAIK, there were quit a lot of people using it, fair amount of traffic on the specific list, but not enough commercial possibilities. (someone has to pay the people working full time for Suse....) And if it's not commercial viable, how to justify the costs? Even the people at RedHat let there Sparc-port die. Best suggestion if you have a sparc-station/server around there is auroralinux, or gentoo (if your patient enough) or Debian. Hans