Re: Good news for SPARC/Linux

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@noris.de)
8 Dec 1998 21:34:07 +0100

Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au> writes:
> > Sun has been working quietly with distributors and a select number of
> > Linux community representatives to port Linux to its UltraSparc processor
> > by as early as February, [...]
>
> I don't know what to make of this statement. When I first read it, it
> sounded like they are helping port Linux to the UltraSparc. But
> UltraPenguin is already available! So what are they actually going to
> help with?
>
They already did, they just kept quiet about it until now.

But you're right -- if they would release all their cool (or not-so-cool,
as the case may be) Slowaris utilities for Linux, preferably with an Open
Source-ish license, _that_ would make a newsworthy statement...

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Matthias Urlichs  |  noris network GmbH   |   smurf@noris.de  |  ICQ: 20193661


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