[ANNOUNCE] Aurora Build-2.0 Beta2

[Justin Conover]

On 11/16/05, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> It was exactly one year ago today that we had our last release (Aurora
> Build 1.92), so it seems only fitting that I announce this today:
>
> We now have a full tree of sparc packages that match up pretty closely
> to Fedora Core 3. But here's the best part: This release comes with
> bootable installable ISOs!
>
> For those of you who have no earthly idea what I'm talking about, allow
> me to explain. The Aurora SPARC Project is an effort to support SPARC
> (32 and 64 bit) hardware on Linux. Specifically, we rebuild Fedora Core
> for SPARC.
>
> Why do we do this? Because we can.
>
> And now, we have a beta for our 2.0 release, which is based off of a 2.6
> kernel. Before I tell you where you can get it, here are the known
> issues:
>
> * On Sun Blade 100s, non-LVM installs will complete, but the system will
> not boot. I have no idea why this is occurring.
> * I was unable to get sound to work on my SPARCStation 20 (dbri).
> * Sometimes, LVM installs die trying to run lvcreate.
> * There is no SMP kernel for sparc32.
> * The following machines have horrible ide controllers:
> SunBlade 100, Ultra 5, Ultra 10
> Accordingly, the installer needs to boot with the following option in
> order to succeed on these machines: ide=nodma
>
> I'm sure there are lots of other fun bugs lurking in there, but those
> are the ones I know about. As you find bugs in the beta, please file
> them at: http://bugzilla.auroralinux.org/
>
> Where do you get this thing?
>
> Primary Download Site:
>
> ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/aurora/build-2.0beta2/
>
> Hopefully, the few mirrors who didn't believe we were dead will get this
> sync'd up eventually.
>
> Thanks to all the folks on #aurora who put up with the massive delay and
> helped me as we finally got this thing together. Once we get any major
> bugs caught and fixed, we'll call it 2.0 final, and move on. :)
>
> ~spot
> --
> Tom "spot" Callaway: Red Hat Senior Sales Engineer || GPG ID: 93054260
> Fedora Extras Steering Committee Member (RPM Standards and Practices)
> Aurora Linux Project Leader: http://auroralinux.org
> Lemurs, llamas, and sparcs, oh my!
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Awesome news Tom!

To bad I have a Sun Blade 100 under my desk at home... =(
Any know issues with Ultra 60's?

Thank you,
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