RE: Now that UltraLinux is Dead

[MattS@ilx.com]

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well, that's what I meant :) UltraPenguin. Not UltraLinux.. Sorry.. My
mistake..

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jakub Jelinek [SMTP:jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 28, 1999 11:20 AM
> To:	MattS@ilx.com
> Cc:	ultralinux@vger.rutgers.edu
> Subject:	Re: Now that UltraLinux is Dead
> 
> > Everyone seems to be shocked and/or dismayed that the UltraLinux project
> is
> > no more..Since this decision has already been made, and seems
> unchangeable,
> > I would like to turn to more practical matters and thank everyone who
> > contributed to the project. I haven't been using UP for very long, but
> the
> > experience I had was a very positive one, and I just bought two Old
> Sparc's
> > to hack on because I enjoyed working w/ linux on the sparc so much.
> 
> UltraLinux project is definitely not dead, so you don't have to be
> shocked.
> We'll definitely continue working on Linux for SPARC machines (be it
> kernel
> work or userland stuff). The issue is just I spent quite a few hours a
> week
> maintaining a distribution, and those hours will be better spent hacking
> kernel, X servers, 64bit userland and other things.
> 
> UltraPenguin was a distribution created so that users can easily try out
> what we hacked on. In 1.0, it was just a few packages changed against
> RedHat
> 4.2, 1.1 was a bunch of changes because at the time we created it there
> was
> no glibc based distribution for SPARCs, then RedHat came with glibc based
> 5.1 and later 5.2 and UltraPenguin 1.1.9 was that plus a bunch of changes
> we
> did during the time. Now it does not make sense to keep maintaining the
> whole distribution any longer. What we hack up will either David publish
> as
> RedHat errata (if it will be important bugfix), or we can publish it on my
> ftp site, but still as a single rpm or a couple of rpms you update into
> your
> distribution. And the upcoming changes like finally a real 64bit userland
> will hopefully appear in any distribution you will choice, be it RedHat
> X.Y
> or Debian Z.W.
> 
> Cheers,
>     Jakub
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz
> Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University
> ___________________________________________________________________
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