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Well, actually some distros are still doing active development for Sparc -- Gentoo for one.

The main ones (Red Hat, SUSE, Debian) did have Sparc versions and could easily enough again. Mostly, though, there just isn't enough interest to make it worth doing.
Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 02/14/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Ahhh! One more proc/platform to add to the  Linux Guy 1000 | 02/14/06
Not really. The distros aren't interested.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/14/06
... For a reason  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/14/06
Support for EVERY hardware architecture is simple ...  George Mitchell | 02/14/06
Ummm, why?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/14/06
Only one problem with this theory  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/14/06
Huh?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/14/06
Pay attention next time  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/14/06
Pay attention  D. T. Schmitz | 02/14/06
Lure, . . like a trap  Boot_Agnostic | 02/14/06
Ummm the "free crap" is Linux.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 02/14/06
IMO, Linux isn't crap  Boot_Agnostic | 02/14/06
Basically this requires someone to port a compiler, right?  George Mitchell | 02/14/06
gcc is already available for Sparc. There is a previous port, so  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
Yes and no  Yagotta B. Kidding | 02/14/06
Sun needs to dedicate engineers to this and make sure the cost performance  DonnieBoy | 02/14/06
"McNealy releases bait to lure fish...  John Zern | 02/14/06
When Richmond fell...  Anton Philidor | 02/14/06
SPARC specs?  Roger Ramjet | 02/15/06

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