On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Jacob Ritorto
wrote:
> Going to recompile the bins on bsd.
> Absolutely LOVING the keyboard. Gosh, I missed that thing.
>
> Otherwise, yeah, don't need a pc here. I admit that I'm a little nervy
> about the bsd learning curve, but, hey - it's a nice thing to
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Jacob Ritorto
wrote:
> tribblix dies a few seconds after starting to boot with
> Loading: /platform/SUNW,Ultra-5_10/boot_archive
> Loading: /platform/sun4u/boot_archive
>
> Can't open boot_archive
> Fast Data Access MMU Miss
>
Hey, thanks for testing (and the bug
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 12:58 AM, Jacob Ritorto
wrote:
> Wow. I just put OpenBSD on this thing and it runs like a pup. I'm really
> impressed. Is anyone besides Peter working on cruft-cutting and minimal
> system distribution of Illumos? If things can be this awesome on 1998
> hardware, we rea
You're welcome. I got even more curious and am starting to play with
FreeBSD too. Actually got the old jumpstart-style rarp/bootp/tftp/nfs
install thing working since I ran out of CDs in the wee hours of the
morning :\ It actually worked great.
I've quite a few SPARC machines ranging from SPA
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Peter Tribble
wrote:
> If you want to get really minimalist then you could use ufs rather
> than zfs. This also saves the space needed for the drivers and tools,
> which isn't negligible. Tribblix again is one of the only distros to
> support installation to a ufs
Well, you were right; however, after spending the day with the bsds, I have
to conclude: They're nice; they're snappy, but they're no OpenSolaris / OI
/ Hipster in terms of overall usability, features and stability. We really
do have an awesome thing going over here. Just need it to be smaller ;
One of the members of this mailing list has recently written about
upgrading his Sparc computer from Solaris 11 to OpenBSD, because
(highly ironically), new versions of Solaris 11 do not support his
Sparc hardware.
I am surprised that a Solaris 11 user would chose OpenBSD over
NetBSD. I will be
On 02/ 2/15 04:02 PM, j...@m5.chicago.il.us wrote:
One of the members of this mailing list has recently written about
upgrading his Sparc computer from Solaris 11 to OpenBSD, because
(highly ironically), new versions of Solaris 11 do not support his
Sparc hardware.
I don't see the irony there -
On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 7:02 PM, wrote:
>
> One of the members of this mailing list has recently written about
> upgrading his Sparc computer from Solaris 11 to OpenBSD, because
> (highly ironically), new versions of Solaris 11 do not support his
> Sparc hardware.
Yeap, that was me. A travesty,
Hi,
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:09 AM, Jacob Ritorto
wrote:
> I've even offered
> to help with dest/dev on Tribblix, which seems to be the closest open
> effort to make it happen.
>
I think Martin Bochnig's opensxce may be an option - he claims that "
OpenSXCE runs [] Sun UltraSPARC sun4u/sun4
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