[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sparc

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

I currently have a Blade 2500 Red in storage right now - once I get a job
again, I hope to get it up and running, and I plan on trying out OpenSXCE.
I've let Martin know, and he said he'll be happy to have me help out - the
only thing that slightly discouraged me was the XVR-1200 framebuffer that
until recently was EOLed support.

Hope to play with it soon!


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- Alex Smith
- Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area USA

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Nikola M. <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/ 6/14 09:59 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
>
>> So, there is no special interest in SPARC or desktop left. My impression
>> is that people interested in it are getting fewer and fewer.
>>
> There IS interest in SPARC! OpenSXCE and Openindiana had releases and some
> people interested on working on OI on SPARC. Problem was having testing and
> development hardware
> and Alasdair offered hosting SPARC machine in it's datacenter for free,
> as long as someone pay for shipment from US (where there are cheap good T2
> based machines to find) to UK.
>
> And there is interest in Desktop. As a fact there is several more illumos
> distributions that include Desktop environment on illumos, beside
> Openindiana, (XStreamOS, Tribblix, OpenSXCE, other?)
> (And I would not even start describing how differentiating distributions
> between
>  'desktop' and 'server' is fruitless and not serving any use)
>
> At least people talking about using their desktop on illumos distro,
> should use some illumos distro and send bug reports and their usage case
> problems and requirements, if any,
> not just randomly popping up something sidewise from time to time, from
> other platforms.
>
>
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