Re: http://www.obsolyte.com/

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Henry Nelson wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:09:36AM -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>> On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:00 AM, Ben Lewis wrote:
>>> Does anyone know what's become of http://www.obsolyte.com/ ?
>
> "Obsolyte - Obsolete and Elyte!", Last update: Aug 6 2007
> Seems to be alive and kicking.
>
>> to have lost lots of steam.  There just doesn't seem to be that much
>> interest, and so maybe the lack of activity on those sites reflects
>
> Lots of interest here, but I had to shut the things down because of
> unwarranted CO[2] emissions.
>
> Besides, I was never able to repair any of the power supplies for my
> five IPCs.
>
>> UltraLinux.org site hasn't been updated since mid-2003, etc.  (There
>> does appear to be current Linux development for SPARC platforms,
>
> NetBSD supports SPARC, even sun4m, and perhaps even earlier though I
> have no way to test.

Yes it runs on sun-4c systems. There is also a Sun-3/3x port of NetBSD 
that still have fairly good current development I believe.

Craig.

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