Since the takeover of Sun Microsystems by Oracle, I'm sure most
people are aware that Solaris SPARC is no longer an option for an OS
for your trusty SPARC & Ultra-SPARC based machines. I installed
Fedora 12 SPARC on my Sunfire 280R a year or so ago, and with much
searching around on the web, (besides here) I finally managed to get
a working, although limited and somewhat broken, install. I have
several questions that will determine if I'm able to keep using this
machine on my network, or if I should just use it for a boat anchor.
I would really like to keep it up, but there are a lot of issues to
be resolved, and the few questions I asked on this mailing list,
plus some pertinent questions that other people asked, seemed to
show that information was not very forthcoming from the folks that
are working on the development of this distro. I fully realize that
this project is not a primary objective of the developers involved,
and is more of a spare time project, but taking that into
consideration, it would be nice to know if there *is* going to be
any more development on this platform, since Fedora is now racing
toward the F15 release, and we're still treading water with a beta
of version 12. My questions are as follows:
1. Is there a plan to follow through with development on a new
release in the near future?
2. What are the current *working* repos & GPG keys that will
allow me to do Yum updates?
3. Is there another info source on this project besides this mailing
list and the Fedora SPARC wiki (which has been over a year since an
update)?
Any info relating to the above would be appreciated. :-)
Dave Land
Land Computer Service
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