[indiana-discuss] Feedback requested! Which SPARC platforms to

[James Cornell]

Then there's nothing major blocking the release ;-)

James
On Oct 14, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Martin Bochnig wrote:

>> Just simple X11 is good enough for me; Fluxbox and
>> *maybe*
>> Enlightenment are the pinnacle of what is needed for
>> local SPARC
>> workstations IMHO.  Just getting X.org in a state
>> where it'll work
>> with common FFB graphics (No 3D or anything fancy)
>> would be enough for
>> this first release.
>
>
> What do you mean??
>
> If you try out
> http://www.martux.org/SPARC_distro_incl_Xorg7.2/
> or
> http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mbeinsx/FOX/bin-snapshots/
> then you will instantly see, that this milestone has been reached  
> already.
>
> HW compat matrix:
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/
>
> fox-gate src repo:
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/fox/fox-gate/
> hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/fox/fox-gate
>
>
> Regards,
> Martin Bochnig
> Natamar project
>
>> I agree with Ken for most
>> purposes about the
>> intended use.  Personally I recommend SPARC
>> workstations to those who
>> are maintaining custom in-house programs they run on
>> big iron, but
>> anything else is really unnecessary to support.  Just
>> make sure things
>> that server people need are there, such as JDK and
>> compilers and most
>> will be content.
>>
>> James
>> On Oct 13, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Ken Mays wrote:
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