Hi All, maybe the question is silly and/or I was unable to find an answer but, why the development of SUSE Linux on SPARC has been discontinued? Are there any plans to (re)start such a thing? Although other *nix flavours exist I'd love to install SUSE on my Sun w.s. :) Thanks, -mw
maybe the question is silly and/or I was unable to find an answer but, why the development of SUSE Linux on SPARC has been discontinued? Are there any plans to (re)start such a thing?
Because there is too little (or no) demand for that. SUSE Linux theoretically can be compiled on SPARC, so if there is demand, anyone can start "SUSE Linux on SPARC" subproject within openSUSE community, and receive community support. I'm not a SPARC owner - so I can't help - but if you want to start such a project - good luck - it will be nice. P.S. According to Distrowatch, SUSE Linux never had SPARC support, so it is not true that it was discontinued. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse
P.S. According to Distrowatch, SUSE Linux never had SPARC support, so it is not true that it was discontinued. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=suse
Trust me, it did. It was launched while I was working there, it was a lot of fun installing it the first time as I recall. Ooh, the excitement was tangible in the office. It really was. -- James Ogley james@usr-local-bin.org Packages for SUSE: http://usr-local-bin.org/rpms Make Poverty History: http://makepovertyhistory.org
Mello
Hi All, maybe the question is silly and/or I was unable to find an answer but, why the development of SUSE Linux on SPARC has been discontinued? Are there any plans to (re)start such a thing?
SUSE Linux on SPARC was done by volunteers inside SUSE - and those decided to not work on it anymore. We do not have plans to restart it, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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