> I've had Natamar 0.4-b96 for a few weeks now. Some thoughts: > 1. Xserver 1.5.1/Mesa 7.2
For the 100th time: Guess what the X11 group is working on for x86, and what is still broken on SPARC. I thought I had described the problem already ... > 2. Xsun driver framework layer for Xorg compatibility (or just XSun > backup) Is this a joke, especially w/o the Xsun src, but even with?! And #2: Okay, I will decide that Xsun is redistributable from now on. The X11-emancipation Xorg work of the last 2.5 years was only for fun. From now on I will ship my distro with Xsun ... Maybe I will run the "reverse-engineering-compiler" over it in a hurry and bundle its src with it. (irony) > 3. A 'possible' closed-source redistributable Sun OpenGL 1.5 First, what do I have to do with this. Secondly: I don't like closed src stuff, as re-iterated previously. #3.) I'm not sure if Sun's Implementation of the SGI OpenGL standard is still being maintained. I would doubt it. #4.) Mesa should have more upstream development nowadays ..., and more functions and better algorithms and higher performance. > 4. iceWm 1.2.36 Right, very important to always have the highest number. Although this fix will indeed be quick, thanks to Alan Coopersmith's Makefiles system. So if you find *this* important, ok. > This could allow us to support and test the XVR-600/1200/2500 device > drivers on the Natamar distro. Maybe... ? The console drivers are on the live cd and the frame buffer rc scripts and drivers are active. If you nfs-mount /usr/openwin then it should be trivial to start Xsun on top of Natamar. When the hdd-installable version is available, folks are free to add Xsun pkgadd packages from any SPARC-Solaris install-media by themselves. BUT I CANNOT SHIP THEM. That was the reason why I ever started wasting what I once had (past tense) into SPARC-Xorg. -- Martin Bochnig > ~ Ken Mays
