Re: SuSE 10

Hans Witvliet wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 12:07 -0800, Grant W. Quinlan wrote:
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>>I've not tried SuSE 10 on Sparc, but I have used SuSE 8 on Sparc. 
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>Excuse me!
>Would you be so kind to share your "SuSE 8 on Sparc" with the rest of
>the world. Or do you have a private build farm?
>The latest vesion that was produced was 7.3 afaik. ;-)
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>Hans
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My mistake! I realized when I got to re-read my post that I was 
inaccurate and misleading. Actually though, this was something of a 
private build farm! At a previous employer we were trying to improve 
throughput for a sparc-based NAS server project  by starting with a 
minimal standard build, and back porting some of the features from the 
SuSE 8 sources. For a few weeks I spent a lot of time in the SuSE 8 
sources but we ended up moving to Intel based hardware instead.

While I'm in confessional, perhaps I should admit that I am still using 
SuSE 5 in my home office. I have a RAID 5 card that was unsupported at 
the time and so I built my own driver based on partial sources available 
from HighPoint and stopped upgrading because I didn't have a pressing 
need and I didn't want to take the time to update and rebuild the 
driver. Now my old RAID card is fully supported in the 2.6 kernel and 
now I'm itching to get OpenOffice 2.0.2 on the machine so I'll be 
upgrading soon.

                 Grant Q