On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:33:00PM -0700, perdurabo wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2004 17:26:52 -0700, Keelan Kindt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi group. > > > > I've attended a meeting or two in the past and I've subscribed to this > > list for a while now. > > > > I was recently given a sun Sparc Station 4, 17" sun monitor, and > > external 4 DVD stacker. > > > > Here's the problem: I'm not really sure what OS to run on it. I use > > gentoo on my laptop, desktop, and servers, but it seems like a lot of > > compile time on a ~100Mhz processor. > > > > Ideas? Thoughts? Opinions? > > > > Anyway, I'm pretty excited - Always wanted my own sparc...
Cool, I almost had a sparc once, then the guy fried it trying to make sure it worked before giving it to me :( > I would definitely run Solaris on it. Linux is ehh on it, OpenBSD > won't run X on it last I heard. NetBSD may run, who knows. Solaris > runs great on it, however. Last you heard must have been ~2 years ago or longer. You can easily check if OpenBSD will run X with your framebuffer: http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html Note: "XFree86 works on all supported frame buffers" Apparently all ss4s had 8bit color tcx framebuffers: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Devices/System_Board/SYSBD_Station_4.html http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?arch=sparc&query=tcx What's the "external 4 DVD stacker"? I don't think NetBSD, and I know OpenBSD doesn't support UDF. That doesn't mean they won't play DVDs though, since libdvdread can read raw data from the device. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> top posting sux _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
