[rescue] Linux on SS1000 (was SS1000)

[brian wheeler]

Here's a dumb question:  How does redhat build a distribution?  It seems
like it'd be fairly automated with source rpms, once the original
patches/etc are taken care of.  If it could be automated in a
cross-compiled sort of way, it seems like an "unofficial" redhat 8.0 for
linux/(pick an arch) could be built with only a minor fuss, which would
make the alpha and sparc ports come back to life, as well as other ports
which never existed (hppa, m68k, arm, etc)

Thoughts?
Brian

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 09:19, Andrew Weiss wrote:
> After this weekend I think it would be nice to have a stable commercial 68k
> and PPC-Nubus Linux kernel.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at yahoo.com>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 12:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Linux on SS1000 (was SS1000)
> 
> 
> > Well, Red Hat underwrote the initial port, and as a business they
> > decided that they should only put effort into those efforts that
> > produce revenue.
> >
> > I don't fault them for that - though it would be nice to have a stable,
> > commercial SPARC Linux to install...
> >
> > BTW: I have official box sets up through Red Hat SPARC Linux 6.2, and
> > betas that run back to (what) 4.2?
> >
> > Lionel
> >
> > --- Al Potter <apotter at spankingnuns.com> wrote:
> > > D00d:
> > >
> > > lionel4287 at yahoo.com said:
> > > > I think that ship has sailed,....
> > >
> > > Just to make sur eyou know the history, RedHat more-or-less
> > > underwrote the initial sparc port, and had a fully supported sparc
> > > version through RZH version 6.2.  They discontinued it because "no
> > > one was using it" as measured by the the sales of soarc boxed sets.
> >
> > I thought the reason was sales, no mention of use...
> >
> > > Never mind that typical users, if they bought the set at all (as
> > > opposed to simply downloading it), bought it ONCE and installed it
> > > MANY times.
> >
> > Well, if it would have helped, I would have installed my copy on more
> > machines... ;^)
> >
> > > Of course, it's merely coincidence that this is approximately the
> > > same time (not use of the word APPROXIMATE) that RH got serious
> > > about bidness and prepared to or went public <SUITS SUITS SUITS>.
> >
> > IIRC, they went public fully supporting x86, Alpha & SPARC. AFTER they
> > IPO'd they dropped SPARC.
> >
> >
> > =====
> > Lionel
> >
> > "Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
> > programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
> > Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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