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Re: [PLUG] Which distro for non-intel machines
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Did someone say NetBSD? http://www.netbsd.org/ it runs on almost anything
and can be very stable.
Kam Salisbury
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----- Original Message -----
From: "William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 1969 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Which distro for non-intel machines
> On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 03:47 PM, Bradley Molnar wrote:
> > This is an odd question, but, here it goes. In an effort to have a
> > reasonably up-to-date version of something on some alpha and sparc
> > machines,
> > I have decided to ask the group for what people think is a good distro
> > that
> > is kept up to date and will also (most likely) continue to support
> > both the
> > alpha and sparc platforms.
>
> You are basically out of luck. Neither SPARC nor Alpha being supported
> (new version ports) into the future unless Sun or HP respectively pays
> for the ports. I had some fairly in depth discussions about the future
> of non Intel architectures with the RedHat engineers on Sunday. They
> basically confirmed what I was previously aware of from other vendors
> -- both SPARC and Alpha have virtually zero commercial support other
> than from their vendors. RedHat has no ports planned for either in the
> future.
>
> On the Alpha, at least at the moment, SuSE has another version in the
> pipeline. However, even though the Alpha is much more popular in
> Europe, they currently do not have plans for release next+1.
>
> Personally, I prefer SuSE on my Alpha to RedHat. Probably because they
> supported it "better" in the past. However, no version of Linux runs
> "well" on the Alpha, if you are looking for anything other than a
> bare-bones operating system... sans environment. The biggest problem is
> the lack of drivers for almost anything.
>
> I don't know the SPARC distribution, but from the way the RedHat guys
> were laughing, it doesn't sound "well supported" either.
>
> What this means is that in terms of support, you are basically on your
> own.
>
> By the way, I assume that you are aware of the linuxalpha.org website
> and the axp mailing list at RedHat.
>
> William H. Magill
> magill@mcgillsociety.org
> magill@acm.org
>
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