Re: [PLUG] Without OS X

[Chris Hedemark <chris@yonderway.com>]

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On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 05:34 PM, William H. Magill wrote:

> And as for the Linux community caring -- the "Linux community" "KNOWS" 
> that Linux ONLY runs on an x86 box.

Untrue.

> Those of us that run "Linux" on something else, like my Alpha for 
> example, have to put up with the fact that "real linux" comes from Red 
> Hat, and you can't buy/or otherwise obtain a copy of Alpha Linux from 
> them

Actually when I was talking to my Red Hat account rep last week he was 
suggesting I try Linux on the mainframe at work.

Also, this next one doesn't come with commercial support, but Red Hat 
is unofficially sponsoring Aurora Linux (basically Red Hat 7.3 for 
sparc).  Aurora runs really well, it is stable, and developed primarily 
by Red Hat employees while they are on the clock (with full blessings 
of management).

Of course when I was on the phone with my Red Hat guy I suggested to 
him that he get TPTB to get spot off of Aurora and onto RHL, heading up 
the sparc architecture.  If RHL were stable on sparc architecture, it 
would be a real contender for real business.

> -- it only comes from Compaq. And most "Linux software" doesn't 
> compile on Alpha without far too much effort compared to x86 systems. 
> (Yeah, I run SuSE, so I'm even weirder. But they are not porting 
> anymore either.)

That's not a Linux problem, though.  That problem is with all the 
people writing OSS strictly for Linux/x86/gcc and not testing against 
other platforms.  You can even run into this compiling OSS on *BSD/x86.

Also many developers don't take endianess into consideration, or 32 vs. 
64 bit integers.

Chris Hedemark
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