Re: [opensuse-factory] feasibility of porting opensuse to SPARC

2006-10-01 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Actually, openSUSE is very good OS and is more convenient than Solaris.So if you have powerful multi-CPU SPARC Server and want a convenient OS, openSUSE is the only way to go.This way you can reutilize Sun Servers as Linux Workstations or Servers. But this would require a very serious rebuild of

Re: [opensuse-factory] feasibility of porting opensuse to SPARC

2006-10-01 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, openSUSE is very good OS and is more convenient than Solaris. So if you have powerful multi-CPU SPARC Server and want a convenient OS, openSUSE is the only way to go. This way you can reutilize Sun Servers as Linux Workstations or Servers.

Re: [opensuse-factory] feasibility of porting opensuse to SPARC

2006-10-01 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 11:29 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: Alexey Eremenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, openSUSE is very good OS and is more convenient than Solaris. So if you have powerful multi-CPU SPARC Server and want a convenient OS, openSUSE is the only way to go. This

Re: [opensuse-factory] feasibility of porting opensuse to SPARC

2006-10-01 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Hans Witvliet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would hope that the real core basis (gcc, glib, binutils, kernel) were already sorted out for the old SuSE-sparc-port (rel 7.0...7.3) But at that time, not everything was open afair. Those glibc, gcc, binutils and kernel versions are old. For example

Re: [opensuse-factory] feasibility of porting opensuse to SPARC

2006-10-01 Thread Alexey Eremenko
There is a new project about this called Cross Linux From Scratch 1.0.0http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=03728#0 Look at it - it's about cross-compiling Linux distro.

[opensuse-factory] feasibility of porting opensuse to SPARC

2006-09-30 Thread Justin Haygood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is the feasibility of porting OpenSUSE to UltraSPARC? I'm considering doing it as a hobby project to have OpenSUSE on my old Sun Ultra2 (it works great, minus the old OS) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: