redhat and SPARC

redhat and SPARC

[Laxminarayan Kulkarni]

I am not able to see any mention of support for SPARC architecture on redhat.com therefore I am confused. Has redhat stopped support for SPARC as one of the threads mentioned. 

I hope to get some response to this question of mine.

-Lax

Re: redhat and SPARC

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 09:44, Laxminarayan Kulkarni wrote:
> I am not able to see any mention of support for SPARC architecture on
> redhat.com therefore I am confused. Has redhat stopped support for
> SPARC as one of the threads mentioned.
>
> I hope to get some response to this question of mine.

RedHat stopped support SPARC back in a 5.x or 6.x version (a few years 
ago now).  You can look at other distributions, such a Debian GNU/Linux 
(http://www.debian.org) for actively supported Linux/SPARC 
distributions.

Pat
-- 
Purdue University Research Computing --  http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcac

RE: redhat and SPARC

[Laxminarayan Kulkarni]

Thanks Pat, I thought so but wnated to confirm on this.

I have one more question Can Debain distribution be installed on a Sun Workgroup Server E420, I did see mention of series of server but could not make out which series SPARC e420 belongs to.

-Lax

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Finnegan [mailto:finnegpt@ned.cc.purdue.edu]On Behalf Of
Patrick Finnegan
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 10:44 AM
To: Laxminarayan Kulkarni
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: redhat and SPARC


On Wednesday 24 November 2004 09:44, Laxminarayan Kulkarni wrote:
> I am not able to see any mention of support for SPARC architecture on
> redhat.com therefore I am confused. Has redhat stopped support for
> SPARC as one of the threads mentioned.
>
> I hope to get some response to this question of mine.

RedHat stopped support SPARC back in a 5.x or 6.x version (a few years 
ago now).  You can look at other distributions, such a Debian GNU/Linux 
(http://www.debian.org) for actively supported Linux/SPARC 
distributions.

Pat
-- 
Purdue University Research Computing --  http://www.itap.purdue.edu/rcac

Re: redhat and SPARC

[Brian Bartholomew]

> You can look at other distributions, such a Debian GNU/Linux
> (http://www.debian.org) for actively supported Linux/SPARC
> distributions.

I am running gentoo Linux version 2004.0 on about 50 Sun Ultra 5 and
Ultra 1 desktops.  It works fine, and the SPARC gentoo software
versions are very similar to my Intel software versions.

> Can Debain distribution be installed on a Sun Workgroup Server E420,
> I did see mention of series of server but could not make out which
> series SPARC e420 belongs to.

I am running gentoo on a Sun E420 that is about to become my
mailserver, and the main problem is that after powerup the machine
must be booted in Solaris to initialize something before Linux will
boot.  I have yet to find the right place to file this bug.

							Brian

Re: redhat and SPARC

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:44:22AM -0500, Laxminarayan Kulkarni wrote:
> I am not able to see any mention of support for SPARC architecture on
> redhat.com therefore I am confused. Has redhat stopped support for
> SPARC as one of the threads mentioned. 
> I hope to get some response to this question of mine.

AFAIK all commercial distros have dropped 32-bit SPARC like a rock.
It's not entirely clear but it seems similar is also going on or has
also already happened to UltraSPARC.


-- wli

Re: redhat and SPARC

[Christian Joensson]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:44:22AM -0500, Laxminarayan Kulkarni wrote:
> I am not able to see any mention of support for SPARC architecture on redhat.com therefore I am confused. Has redhat stopped support for SPARC as one of the threads mentioned. 
> 
> I hope to get some response to this question of mine.

well, yes, however, there's auroralinux.org :)

Cheers,

/ChJ

Re: redhat and SPARC

[C.Newport]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 5:52 pm, Christian Joensson wrote:

> well, yes, however, there's auroralinux.org :)

<aol> and http://www.splack.org/ </aol> <B-).

Re: redhat and SPARC

[Andrew Gaffney]

Christian Joensson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 09:44:22AM -0500, Laxminarayan Kulkarni wrote:
> 
>>I am not able to see any mention of support for SPARC architecture on redhat.com therefore I am confused. Has redhat stopped support for SPARC as one of the threads mentioned. 
>>
>>I hope to get some response to this question of mine.
> 
> 
> well, yes, however, there's auroralinux.org :)

<plug type="shameless">
And of course there is Gentoo :)
</plug>

-- 
Andrew Gaffney
Gentoo Linux Developer
Installer Project