Getting Mac Linux is not worth the trouble.

[Ricardo Adrian Serrano-Ledee]

Aparently I missunderstood the information posted on the Swarm Web
site.  There is a binary version of Swarm for Linux, however is for
pentium PC linux!  Please see below.  The available binaries are for
pentium PC linux, HP/UX, and for Solaris.


glen e. p. ropella wrote:
> 
> "jalopez" == "John A Lopez" <address@hidden> writes:
> jalopez> glen,
> 
> jalopez> Met you at the fest - nice to meet you finally. Is the Swarm
> jalopez> + binaries for linux usable for Mklinux or should I go with
> jalopez> just the source or what?  John
> 
> John,
> We don't have any binaries for the PowerPC or the motorola chips.
> It might be worth mentioning to everybody the style I chose for
> naming the binaries.  The format is:
> 
>   swarm-[version#]-[CPU]-[OS].tar.gz
> 
> If either of [CPU] or [OS] is not compatible with your machine/system,
> then that binary probably won't work for you.  So, in the future (after
> John or some kind soul packages up a MkLinux binary), we hope you'll
> see things like:
> 
>    swarm-1.0.0-ppc-mklinux.tar.gz
>    swarm-1.0.0-mips-irix5.3.tar.gz
>    swarm-1.0.0-alpha-decunix3.2.tar.gz
> 
> on our ftp site.  Of course, this isn't necessarily fully specified.
> For instance, I assume that linux 2.0.0 is compatible with 2.0.20.
> I even expect that Swarm compiled on 1.2.13 is compatible with 2.0.20.
> But, I don't know that.  When and if it becomes clear that OS versions
> are incompatible with respect to Swarm, we'll use version numbers for
> those as well.
> 
> But, the short answer is that we don't have a ppc mklinux binary
> yet.
> 
> glen

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