Edward M. Corrado on Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:19:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] OT Sparc


On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> 
> Aurora is unofficially Red Hat 7.3 for sparc.  It's lead developer (Tom 
> "Spot" Callaway) does this on Red Hat time at Red Hat's office in 
> Raleigh.  A couple of other Red Hatters chip in, though I don't know 
> how much credit they want.  They just got like 8-12 more machines from 
> me last week for this project.  Right now the goal is to have rock 
> solid stability against RH 7.3 source, and the long term goal is to 
> match Red Hat's current stable release tree.  The 7.3 version has been 
> very very good now for awhile.  Unlike the *BSD's, it works well with 
> multiple CPU's.


Chris, thanks for the Aurora recomendation. It wasn't even on my radar
screen. I'll have to check it out.

Ed C.

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