I have slxt (sparc linux X term) working with some SparcStation SLCs I
have at home. If anyone needs help setting this up, get in touch.
Download from: http://www2.gol.com/users/gaijin/Linux/
I couldn't get XKernel working, but I don't like Solaris anyway. YMMV.
--matt
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Scott Howard wrote:
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> As for what software to run on them, there's a few options...
> XKernel is a hacked up SunOS 4.1.x kernel/X server which basically just
> turns the machine in an X server. It's made to be booted over the network
> from another machine (historically a Sun, but I'm sure you could talk a
> Linux box into doing it), and thus needs no local hard disk. It's
> reasonably fast, but unfortunately is a fairly old version of X.
>
> Another option is something I've been setting up of late. It's basically
> the same thing as XKernel, but based on Linux and X11R6.4. Boots over the
> network so again needs no local disk, and is little more than an X server.
> It's still a work in progress, but if anyones interested in playing with
> it, let me know. It needs a little more memory than XKernel, but it has
> the advantage of using a later version of X.
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