Re: How big is the SPARC/Linux community?

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 15:21, Mando Gomez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was wondering how big is the SPARC/Linux community? Especially after Sun's 
> attempts to bring Linux to the platform (albeit a little late). 

Bigger than a LX, smaller than an E15K.

Seriously, I wager Aurora has ~200 mailing list members. Take that
number as you will.

> I love my Redhat 6.2 and wonder when will something better come out for my 
> UltraSPARC machines. I have tried SUSE, Gentoo, and Mandrake and all lack 
> Redhat's wonderful attributes to the platform (I've been thinking about Aurora 
> Linux but I guess it needs more time and a full release for me to try it). 
> 
> What future is there for the SPARC/Linux community? 

"The future is what you make it." --Doc Brown, Back To The Future 3

I'm happy to be able to call myself part of the SPARC/Linux community,
the users are informed and active, and most important, they're patient.
I don't see this port dying off anytime soon.

However, the best way to keep something alive is to get involved. Pick a
distro, help it get better, bugfix, add code, help others get it
installed.

Hope that helps,

~spot
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