Does opensuse or SLES support the "1.34 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi" processor? Thanks, LDB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
No. It will require a lot of manpower to make openSUSE for SPARC for too few customers. I saw statistics: 1 man on sparc 100 man on PPC 10000 on x86 SPARC has about 0.01% of user base of x86. But if there any SPARC people interested, it might be nice to build SPARC port of openSUSE. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 10:50 +0300, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
No.
It will require a lot of manpower to make openSUSE for SPARC for too few customers.
I saw statistics:
1 man on sparc 100 man on PPC 10000 on x86 SPARC has about 0.01% of user base of x86.
But if there any SPARC people interested, it might be nice to build SPARC port of openSUSE.
There once was SuSE-linux 7.0 - 7.3... (still have it here) And even a sparc dedicated mailing list ;=8 (all gone) A real fully supported SLE (s/d) is out of the question, it just won't sell, and hence not worth the effort for suse's employees. Fair enough. OTOH, It would certainly be a nice community project, but expect it to take a huge amount of effort & time. So you see, you just need a couple of people.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
But if there any SPARC people interested, it might be nice to build SPARC port of openSUSE.
Gentoo runs on sparc64 (and alpha and hppa) - a lot of the basic infra-structure could probably be borrowed from there. I experimented with gentto/hppa a couple of years ago, worked fine. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 09:29 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Alexey Eremenko wrote:
But if there any SPARC people interested, it might be nice to build SPARC port of openSUSE.
Gentoo runs on sparc64 (and alpha and hppa) - a lot of the basic infra-structure could probably be borrowed from there. I experimented with gentto/hppa a couple of years ago, worked fine.
Have a look at auroralinux: FC based, running on sparc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 5:24 AM, Hans Witvliet
Have a look at auroralinux: FC based, running on sparc.
Unfotunately, they haven't updated their news since last January and they haven't updated the site since december. It may have been abandoned..... :-( -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
LDB escribió:
Does opensuse or SLES support the "1.34 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi" processor?
No, and AFAIK, there are no plans to support it. -- "A computer is like an Old Testament god, with a lot of rules and no mercy. " Cristian Rodríguez R. Platform/OpenSUSE - Core Services SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development http://www.opensuse.org/
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:48:21 -0400, LDB wrote:
Does opensuse or SLES support the "1.34 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi" processor?
No, neither of them is available for the SPARC architecture. The market is simply far too small to be commercially viable. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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