Re: Latest build

Sparc is supported by a number of other flavors of Linux...Debian supports 
it, and a few others.   However Suse does not, and I doubt very seriously if 
Novell cares if it is supported.

Shawn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans Witvliet" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Latest build


> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 17:48 -0500, Huston wrote:
>> 
>> No there isn't a recent build for sparc.   This distribution is not
>> ported to sparc any more.
>>
>>         ----- Original Message ----- 
>>         From: David Stadden
>>         To: [email protected]
>>         Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 5:01 PM
>>         Subject: [suse-sparc] Latest build
>>
>>
>>
>>         Is there a recent build of SuSE for sparc platform available
>>         for download? On the ftp site it looks like there's a very old
>>         build.
>>
>>         David
>
> At last meeting in Nurnberg i tried to persued them to move all the
> other ports entirely to opensuse, (not just Sparc, but HP-PA also)
>
> As there will be no revenue coming from it, it is hard for them to have
> someone working at it. (and supporting it also.)
> Hence my suggestion for the move to opensuse and let the community do
> the rest ;-))
>
> Sparc is supported somewhere, have a look at auroralinux.org.
> Dennis is porting /recompiling a huge number of packages for Sparc
> ( http://aurora.fedoramirror.net/pub/aurora/ )
>
> And if you don't mind going back in time for ten years, you might try
> *bsd. Current best option (imho) install aurora 1.00, and upgrade to
> 1.92, and eventually Corona.
>
> Hans
>
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