[indiana-discuss] Compiling Package(s) in Indiana?

Brian Nitz Brian.Nitz at Sun.COM
Fri Feb 29 02:28:40 PST 2008


I've seen the opposite, Indiana looks blurrier on some hardware when 
running on a SNV79 VirtualBox host.  I think it has something to do with 
color depth and how well antialiasing works inside the virtualized 
display.  Do you get a warning message regarding color depth? 


W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>> And BTW, I should have a new version of the JDS CBE
>> ready by Monday
>> and it will "support" indiana, in the sense that it
>> will "pkg install"
>> a bunch of packages that you need for development and
>> are not
>> installed by default (e.g. SUNWhea, to start with the
>> basics).
>> It won't install any of the utilities that are now in
>> SFW
>> (e.g. subversion, automake, autoconf).
>>
>> So stay tuned.  I've been using Indiana with a bunch
>> of SFE packages
>> for about 2 weeks now and it's wasn't difficult to
>> switch from
>> Nevada.  My only complaint is the poor fonts.
>>
>> Laca
>>
>>     
>
> Thanks.  Really look forward to it!
>
> Re ugly fonts.  Indy2 actually looks much better when running under VirtualBox (in SXDE4) than over the bare metal.  Plse see the attached screenshots; both are running under VirtualBox.  I think the poor font problem is most likely related to the driver.
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