RE: SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?

Yes,

Unless beta-test-runs become available (would love that) waiting is the only
thing we can do.
Last rumours I heard, was that sparc-32 is still problematic (in contrast to
ultra-sparc)

Don't know about the latest compiler, but I guess (!!!) the considerations
for 64-bit userland are for sparc not different
then for the linux port on PA-RISC (HP). On their latest version, the system
can fully handle 64-bit (lots of systems with >> 4GB available. 
But it was considered a complete waste of time for creating 64-bit userland
applications, yet.

Furthermore, I would not count on an OO port for linux/sparc. I'm subscribed
to the porting list of OpenOffice and that would be the first place to
detect any attempts. Porting a project such enormous big is not a single
person job. I tried go get some people to post OO to PA-RISC (either HP-UX
or linux), but all I could get was seven people, with only three having the
opportunity to compile something: My, Myself and I......

At home, I only have small machines (LX, SS4, and SS20), so not really
machines to start huge compilations on.
And at work (well as long as the company is not going bust) I would become
quite impopulair if I would "allocate" some of the U80 or E450 to run linux,
shame though...

Hans

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Scott A Micciche [SMTP:[email protected]]
	Sent:	Wednesday, June 26, 2002 3:16 AM
	To:	Witvliet, Hans
	Cc:	'Scott Micciche'; Suse Mail List
	Subject:	RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?

	Thanks all, I'll await the 8.x release.  Maybe it will have gcc 3.1?
I
	utilize this on solaris and it works very well compiling 64 capable
	code.... maybe 64 bit userland is next for linux/sparc?

	On Tue, 25 Jun
	2002, Witvliet, Hans wrote:

	> Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 09:03:04 +0200
	> From: "Witvliet, Hans" <[email protected]>
	> To: 'Scott Micciche' <[email protected]>,
	>      Suse Mail List <[email protected]>
	> Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?
	>
	> Hi Scott,
	>
	> Some time ago, same question was answered on the list.
	> No, there will not be an 8.0 release, next will be 8.1.
	> As the main 8.0 release is still quite fresh, I would not hold my
breath
	> until the release date <;-))
	>
	> Hans
	> 	-----Original Message-----
	> 	From:	Scott A Micciche [SMTP:[email protected]]
	> 	Sent:	Tuesday, June 25, 2002 4:32 AM
	> 	To:	Suse Mail List
	> 	Subject:	[suse-sparc] SuSE 8.0 for Sparc?
	>
	> 	Will there by an 8.0 release for the Sparc 32/64 platform?
I
	> haven't seen
	> 	anything related to Sparc on the roadmap.  Thanks in
advance.
	>
	> 	Scott Micciche
	>
	>
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