On Thursday 27 January 2005 15:09, you wrote:

On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 15:02, Fergus Wilde wrote:

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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

Thanks for the mail, Hans - yes, I do see the commercial problem for outfits like SuSE. I think what I'll do is carry on doing what I started last week, putting OpenBSD on my old Ultra 1. http://www.openbsd.org/sparc64.html That port installed really well, dead easy, and runs beautifully. They haven't got SMP working yet, though I think FreeBSD has. But SuSE's mass of programmes and desktops would have been nice on a more powerful machine ... oh well, Cheers Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk