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Red Hat Abandons Sparc

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-all-three-sparc-users-get-mad dept.

Mike Dubreuil writes: "When I went to download Red Hat Linux 7.0 for Sparc I was disappointed to learn RH is dropping support for the sparc processor line. They are claiming that there is a low demand for sparc versions This may be a major blow to the Linux community because Red Hat is the top vendor for commercial copies of Linux. Not to mention that they have the support in place to handle what large companies demand." Update: 10/02 09:43 PM by CT : Bernhard Rosenkraenz wrote in to say "It is true that we will probably not release Red Hat Linux 7.0 for sparc. However, this does NOT mean there won't be a Red Hat Linux 7.1 or 7.2 for sparc. If, at some time, we decide to discontinue commercial sparc support, we will turn Red Hat Linux for sparc into a community effort."

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  1. Re:Well.. Solaris is better on Sparc.. by spankenstein · · Score: 4

    From ultralinux.org...

    Faster is a very relative term. UltraLinux takes a smaller amount of memory to start up, so for machines with a small amount of memory it will tend to seem faster. For most low level kernel functions UltraLinux is faster as you can see from these benchmark results...

    Here is the link....

    Really people... This took 5 seconds to find. Don't make up stuff as you go please.

  2. Red Hat is NOT the only distro... by B00yah · · Score: 4

    As long as there is still the other members of LPI6 and the other major distros, ie Mandrake, Linux will still be able to support all that it needs to. Just because Red Hat changes something, does not mean that it will affect the rest of the distros..


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  3. There may be others, but.... by Esqueleto · · Score: 4

    While those people posting with the "but there are other distros..." have a point, they're missing the primary concern. Redhat, actually provides support, which seems to be a sticking point with big business. They want someone to yell at when everything goes to shit....Redhat is that someone.

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  4. It isn't true. by bero-rh · · Score: 5

    The article's subject should be "Red Hat Linux 7.0 possibly won't be released for sparc".

    The sparc machines are still part of our build system, and we won't just drop it off.

    If we ever decide to discontinue sparc support commercially, the sparc port will be turned into a community effort.

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  5. Re:how can something with by Patrik+Nordebo · · Score: 5

    You can't blame Red Hat for not giving back to the community, because they do. They pay Alan Cox, Stephen C. Tweedie and Ingo Molnar to hack the kernel (probably more people too), they funded a lot of early work on Gnome, they bought Cygnus and freed Source Navigator, not to mention that they release all the software they as part of their distribution as free software. These are just a few of the things Red Hat has done for the community.
    Claiming they don't give free stuff back to the community is ridiculous. Though personally I prefer Debian to the Red Hat distribution, I am grateful for all the things that Red Hat has done for all of us.