On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 09:51:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey everyone- > > Let me preface this say saying that if the answers to the questions I am > about to ask are in a FAQ somewhere, please just point me to it.. a quick > search of the web and persual of the list archives still leaves me with > questions, however, so... > > 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.
It's as usable as any other port of Debian GNU/Linux. I use my ultrasparc Debian system as my main desktop, web browsing, email, coding, etc.. > 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 :) cg14 works with the potato xserver-xsun/xserver-xun24 packages. If you want the latest and greatest, upgrade to sid and install the xserver-xfree86 package, and configure that. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
