Re: RedHat 6.0 runs on UltraSPARC?

[Randy Carpenter <rcarpen@celt.network1.net>]

> > Dang... I would think it would be incredibly good to "support" UltraSparc
> > machines...  
> 
> It is supported.

I meant from a marketing standpoint:

"Red Hat 6.0 runs on UltraSparc!"

I would think that this would be something worth advertising :)

> I guess you have a choice right now. Either you go for the $0 version
> (either install from FTP/HTTP or burn your own CD - these two are the only
> options in UltraPenguin you had), or you go for a $40 version, or $80
> version (I don't know how much does it cost exactly but think I've read
> those two numbers for CD sets without/with installation support).

They don't have the $40 version for alpha or sparc yet...

> I really don't think it would make any sense to cp -a redhat-6.0 ultrapenguin-1.2
> and with the exception of tape install and maybe two or three little other things
> everything what was in ultrapenguin is in redhat, plus redhat 6.0 is based on
> glibc-2.1 and many things have changed since rh5.2 ultrapenguin-1.1.9 was
> forked from.

Is there still going to be Ultrapenguin 1.2 ?  Based on RH 6.0 ?


thanks,

-Randy