[ale] Gentoo on UltraSparc?

[Greg]

It can be.  I have my sparcstation configured with xfce (lightweight and
nice) (and I will try blackbox and some other's later).KDE and Gnome are in
the ports if you are looking for the whole groovy GUI all in one desktop
thing.  I started with Linux and went to OpenBSD as Linux is a bit easier
intro to Unix, but even OpenBSD has come a long way - burning cd's, laptops,
etc ....  I think NetBSD and FreeBSD also have a sparc port, Suse has/will
have a port to the AMD Opteron if you need 64 bit processors. Of course, I
can always sell you (dirt cheap) my solaris 8 or 9 systems (with boxes and
manuals and cd's) if you want.

Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-admin at ale.org [mailto:ale-admin at ale.org]On Behalf Of Fletch
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:26 PM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Gentoo on UltraSparc?
>
>
> >>>>> "F" == F Grant Robertson <f.g.robertson at alexiongroup.com> writes:
>
>     F> Hmm, I hadn't thought about OpenBSD.. I'm really looking to use
>     F> this as a workstation though, Isn't OpenBSD geared more toward
>     F> servers?
>
> OpenBSD with its security focus has been more suitable for server and
> firewall use, but since 3.0-ish it's been a bit more useable as a
> desktop.  The ports collection while still not the size of FreeBSD's
> has most of what you'd want for a desktop system.
>
>
> I still run RH9 for my desktop, but that's because it's a laptop (and
> even then I've got stuff that doesn't work :/, but anyhow).  Otherwise
> I'd certainly give OpenBSD (or Net- for that matter) a look.
>
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