Re: Linux on SPARC

On Aug 10, 12:26 pm, "philo" <ph...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<hack...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation_5 <====== Yep this is the one

110mhz cpu , 224 megs of RAM and two, 2 gig HD's

Did you get X working with NetBSD? It may be possible to have fiddle
with the Xorg config file by hand to point to the "fbdev", or frame
buffer device. I'd say Debian would be a good distro. Gentoo would
require some disk space to compile everything.

With a Sparcstation 5, you're probably looking at 8-bit color
anyways. I think it was a pretty nice machine, though.

DMM
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