On 12/20/20 11:49 AM, Rick Leir wrote:
I have some sparcstations too, and would like to be able to use
them, but honestly it's unlikely that I ever will. What's more, a
modern linux experience is not possible due to limited RAM and
disk. Not to mention the problem of keeping the hardware working.
Just like I keep running old 68k Macs, I'd like to keep running old
SPARC systems. I don't expect a "modern Linux experience" (e.g.
Gnome and systemd) on any of these old systems. I may use only a
text console and sysvinit (for as long as sysvinit is supported; if
Debian stops supporting sysvinit, I'll move to Gentoo). If X11
works reasonably well, I'll likely use Xfce instead of Gnome or KDE.
The main Debian master has a KISS problem, we would do better to
keep it simple stupid. I don't mean to insult anyone with this,
maybe the phrase doesn't translate well. please don't take
offense. Maybe the problem is all in my head. To keep it simple we
should reduce the number of target architectures and maybe remove
all but 64 bit.
You would leave out a lot of good, still-functioning systems if you
were to remove all but 64-bit.
For 32 bit Sparc we should freeze functionality, but keep fixing
bugs. How can we choose the most reliable debian version as the
basis for a bug fix branch?
Imho
Cheers
Rick
On December 20, 2020 11:07:08 a.m. EST,
Stan Johnson <userm57@yahoo.com> wrote:
I also have a couple of SPARCstation 5 systems that I'd like to be able
to keep using.
-Stan Johnson
On 12/19/20 2:57 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 12/19/20 10:40 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
Please keep the inputs coming independent if you are pro or not
for the sunset of sun4m and sun4d.
I would personally be in favor of keeping it and I should finally get
my SPARCstation 5 up and running again.
Adrian
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