[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 1) What's the general state of the debian-sparc port (from a day to day usage > viewpoint, rather than a feature-list viewpoint). I'm trying to decide what > OS to run on my SS20, between debian, OpenBSD, and Solaris.. Basically, I > want to run a bunch of xterms and a browser (konquerer, mozilla, whichever).. > The key being, I want to do it in 24bit color. which brings me to my next > questions.
Potato is very stable and clean (except for small install probs): jcc05:/usr/local/home/ragga$ uname -a Linux jcc05 2.2.17 #1 Fri Sep 22 12:01:06 JST 2000 sparc unknown jcc05:/usr/local/home/ragga$ uptime 10:05am up 161 days, 19:31, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00 There's not so much difference from a usage point between Debian and OpenBSD on the Sun4m arch. From an administrative point I think you can't beat Debian but NetBSD and OpenBSD are well worth having a look at. Especially if you are short on memory or HD. Solaris is somewhat a resource hog but before you choose you may really want to check support for the apps you want to run. The Linux world is a bit i86 biased so don't be surprised if there's no linux/sparc options. (Note also that in many cases SunOS emulation is a working option with Debian and *BSD) > > 2) What's the state of debian-sparc and cg14 support in Xfree 4.0.2? I > installed debian and upgraded to woody, but the actual Xfree 4 xserver is > nowhere to be found (even a quick manual check of the mirrors show it to be > missing). Am I going to have to build it from source? (I have the source > package from brandens site. it takes a _long_ time for the build to fail on > my SM50 cpu :) There doesn't seem to be any XF4 server built in the pool area right now. Let's wait a few days. (that's the time it would take to compile anyway on the SS20 8^) HTH, -- Ragga
