Re: deb-sparc X and other questions

2001-03-06 Thread mstockda
it wasn't in my dselect list, but I got it in.. didn't work, but that's another 
issue..

On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:28:27PM +1000, Q89029292 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Xfree 4 is missing?
> 
> Have you tried obtaing it using apt-get? After running apt-get update you
> can search the archives at home using "$apt-cache search xfree" or search
> for anything else for that matter.
> 
> N.B. I'm using it on a leo equipped classic, isn't noticably faster than
> xserver-xsun24 however.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter Firmstone.
> 
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 [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.
> > 
> > 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 :)
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any help,
> > 
> >   Matt
> > 
> > 
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deb-sparc X and other questions

2001-03-02 Thread mstockda
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.

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 :)

Thanks in advance for any help,

  Matt