Re: Compiling vanilla kernel issues.

2013-09-24 Thread Richard Thornton
I am a linux guy too, but on my Sun Blade 100, I run OpenBSD - I could never get Debian to work right with it, but with OpenBSD, I have fvwm2, firefox3.6, R, perl, etc. It's not bad, it's fast, and it worked with no tweaking. On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Kieron Gillespie wrote: So still no joy

Re: liburcu sparc support, build failure on buildd

2013-02-22 Thread Richard Thornton
I support linux on x86 hardware, but on my old Sun blade 100, the only open source OS which consistently installs and runs properly is openbsd for sparc. I must have tried 100 times to get linux to work but it does not work with the rage xl video board and i am not a patient guy.; openbsd does.

Re: X or gdm problem on Wheezy/testing

2012-10-23 Thread Richard Thornton
I could never get debian to run on my old sun blade 100 and had to go to sparc version of openbsd. On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd markmll.debian-sp...@telemetry.co.uk wrote: I wonder if somebody could give me some advice on how best to report this bug. I'm certain that