[Aurora-sparc-user] Aurora still going?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Apr 3 10:53:15 EDT 2009


On 04/03/2009 09:23 AM, Will Dowling wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> Just wondering if Aurora Linux is still in development? I have several
> Blade 2500 workstations and a Sun Fire v880z server. I managed to
> installed Ubuntu onto the workstations after problems with Gentoo and
> Debian. Just found this distro and wondering how well developed it is?
> If you guys need testers I could lend a hand with the blade 2500 and v880.

We're in the process of migrating into Fedora SPARC. Slow, but steady
progress. We have a half-working Fedora 9 Beta ISO here:

http://secondary.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora-secondary/releases/test/9-Beta/Fedora/sparc/iso/

Hardware detection is... poor at best. X almost certainly doesn't work
for most systems.

We're working on it though. :)

~spot


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