Re: [opensuse] Re: [suse-sparc] This list will be closed by the 12th of November 2007

Hi,

On Thursday, November 08, 2007 at 00:37:56, Hans Witvliet wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 14:43 +0100, Henne Vogelsang wrote:
> > 
> > due to the lack of traffic and the list server dying off this list will
> > be closed at the 12th of November 2007.
> 
> (cross-posting intentionally)

I wonder why...
 
> Is it only the lack of traffic?

Yes that is the reason to shut down the list. The last real thread here
was back in 2003.
 
> I wonder if the interrest is also deminnished...

Well thats one conclusion you can draw from the lack of traffic :)

> Can you tell (or should i be able to see for my self) how many people
> are still subscribed to the list...

Around 530 addreses. I doubt that many of them where aware up until now
that they are subscribed ;)
 
> Henne, if you think that (open)-suse can be cured from obesitas, sparc
> has still a future. 7.0 ran well on 64MB, while otoh if you want to
> upgrade an 10.1 system, you need 1GB AND swap-space!
> (Was happy to find that 10.3 is not such a resource-pig as 10.1)
> But 512MB is the limit for many sparc-systems!

I guess thats a symptom of "Life goes on" :) But thats just my personal
opinion. You are free to bring back the sparc port but i dont think
anyone here at SUSE is interested in it anymore. 

Henne

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Henne Vogelsang, openSUSE.
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