From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:19:43 +0000 Subject: Re: Now that UltraLinux is Dead Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > 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 ___________________________________________________________________ UltraLinux | http://ultra.linux.cz/ | http://ultra.penguin.cz/ Linux version 2.2.5 on a sparc64 machine (3958.37 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________