Re: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - "Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from

2008-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Alan Coopersmith spake: > Octave Orgeron wrote: >> Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end. > > Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago - > there's no more pushing to that point to do. IBM sells POWER-based workstations. I like work

Re: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - "Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from

2008-12-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Octave Orgeron wrote: > Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end. Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago - there's no more pushing to that point to do. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com Sun Micros

[osol-discuss] Issues with OpenSolaris ISOs mirrors?

2008-12-29 Thread Dale Ghent
Lacking any specific venue for those who run mirrors of the OpenSolaris bits, I have a question for those who do. I run a mirror of the OpenSolaris ISOs at http://os.elemental.org/ and since setting it up for the community to use, I've noticed a huge amount of connections from a particular