I'm running potato on a SparcStation 2 (sun4c), Kernel 2.2.20. The system is running smooth (more or less since the SS2 is really slow compared to current hardware). Only the X server makes some problems (Xsun) - it behaves extremly sluggish and while running X sometimes messages like "unknown keyboard ioctl" or something like that show up in the syslog. I don't know if the Xsun or the keyboard driver is the problem but I hope that things will get better with woody and XFree 4.1.x (I'm using a cgsix (Turbo-GX) btw). The SS2 will be used as X client (XDMCP via LAN to another box) and apache will serve static data but performance isn't really important, just two clients... One question: Does upgrading to kernel 2.4.x make sense? I know that at the moment there are some problems with 2.4.x on sparc32 (may be especially on sun4c?) and of course I only would consider upgrading provided that someday there will be a stable 2.4.x for the sun4c architecture. I don't really _need_ 2.4.x since 2.2.20 fully supports the SS2 but would there be any reason to upgrade - maybe some magic "improved overall performance" or whatever? :-)
Greetings, Andreas Behnert -- To err is human; effective mayhem requires the root password! --
