Re: Hello

[Jonathan Andrews <jon@jonshouse.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 18:29, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
> Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> 
> > Not being a Debian user before now I have no idea who maintains the
apt
> > archive, do they need help porting or is it just a slow process to
> > update?
> 
> It's a very long story. Essentially, things get "dropped" regularly
from 
> configuration scripts -- like understanding that sun's have sbus frame
> buffer, sunmouse drivers, etc. They get a binary right, and then the 
> stuff gets dropped again. If you know what the guys tend to do wrong, 
> you're okay, because all the code's there.
> 
> Telling them doesn't help much either; they tend to say that they
don't 
> have Sparc boxes at home. Your best bet is to offer to beta-test,
or...
> 
> 1) Aurora Sparc dist (RedHat 8)
> 2) SuSE Sparc
> 3) gentoo Sparc
> 4) Slackware Sparc
> 5) Mandrake (?)
> 
> RedHat doesn't acknowledge Aurora; SuSE openly doesn't support theirs;
> Mandrake keeps theirs around on the ftp server. All are community 
> supported. Difference is, guys doing the ports actually have the
machines.
> 
> Not that I'm blasting Debian; you see, they have a guy in change of X,
> and guy in charge of gcc... Not a guy in charge of Sparcs, Alphas,
etc. 
> The X maintainers truly don't have sparcs, that's why they mess up.
And 
> of course, the code COMPILES...
> 

Thanks for the info :-)

I shake your hand as the only person this week more bitter and cynical
than me :-) :-) 

Whats gentoo sparc like ? Has anybody had a go - if linux going to be
difficult it might as well be very difficult !

Jon