Hi,

First of all, I would like to apologize for falling out of the loop
for almost 4 months. My move and settling-in period took quite a
bit longer than I expected. In the meantime there was no further
progress on the decision about continued sparc32 support, so I would
like to address it as soon as possible.

The discussion which took place in April and May did not in any way
resolve the fundamental problem of sparc32: lack of people actively
interested in maintaining it (please correct me if I'm wrong)....

Jurij Smakov wrote:

I, for one, will be sorry to see it go, as I actively use my SS10's and
20's. Anyone know of any other Linux distros out there that support the
Sparc32 architecture, or am I going to have to look into something like
NetBSD going forward?

Steve

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On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:08:57 -0700, Steven Ringwald asric.com>
wrote:

I too will be sad to see it go. I love my SS5...

Regards,
Ozz.

On Sunday 15 July 2007 03:53, Austin Denyer wrote:

Hi Steven and Denyer,

We are *also* sad to see sparc32 go, but these kinds of messages are only
a repeat of similar reactions on earlier threads.

What we need to sparc32 alive - not only in Debian, but in Linux in
general - is not people who are sad, but people who are willing to invest
time and energy to fix the issues there are, to make sure sparc32 is
supported in the software (kernel, toolchain, whatever) and who are
committed to _keeping_ it maintained.
Being sad unfortunately does not help with that at all.

I love it for my dual processor SS20. Is there another linux distro I can
use?

On 15/07/07, Ozz Austin Denyer ozz.is-a-geek.net> wrote:

Frans Pop wrote:

Hello,

Of course.

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On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:18:00 +0200, Frans Pop wrote:

Austin (Ozz) Denyer wrote:

just thinkin, I don't think a sparc32 chip has been released in more
than 12 years. Surely these cannot be energy efficient machines ;)

Andrew
moonet.co.uk

On 15/07/07, Hamish Greig bigpond.net.au> wrote:

andrew holway wrote:

Aren't the Sun Rays which are still shipping using microSparc IIep chips?