Re: RedHat 6.0 runs on UltraSPARC?

["Nicholas S. Wourms" <nwourms@dialup.dstm.com>]

I hope that Ultra Linux will continue, in some form, so that we can finally 
get support for some of the sparcs RedHat is not currently supporting in 
6.0 (i.e. sun4/330).  We may be a minority among all sparc users, but we 
are out there.


At 04:09 PM 4/28/99 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>
>> > > Do you mean RedHat 6.0 runs on UltraSPARC systems?
>> > >
>> >
>> > Yes, it does. Most of the things being merged from UltraPenguin were 
>> exactly
>> > changes to support sparc64.
>> > It is probably RHs fault not to put that in any kind of
>> > announcements, at least none of those I saw.
>>
>> Dang... I would think it would be incredibly good to "support" UltraSparc
>> machines...
>
>It is supported.
>
>> I would certainly have a market for UltraSparc/Linux for my
>> customers.  They need to have a $39 version though :)  Most of us with
>> UltraSparcs don't need 'official support' :-)
>
>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).
>
>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.
>
>Cheers,
>    Jakub
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