Gentoo on SPARC: Calling all Gentoo-GURUs!

[Andrew Mathews]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> For all of you Gentoo guru's:
> 
> The Gentoo-SPARC instructions state that X is not supported on
> Gentoo-SPARC.  But it also talks about using Xsun or somesuch.
> Does X run on Gentoo-SPARC and it's just not supported by the Gentoo
> guys?  Do you have to buy Sun's X server for Linux?  What's the deal
> here.  I'm trying to test out Linux on SPARC and since everyone who
> tries Gentoo raves, I though I'd try that one this time around (since
> Gentoo, Slack, Deb, and Sorceror's are the only major distros to support
> SPARC at this point-per DistroWatch).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Matt

FWIW-
  I have a central syslog server running on Aurora Linux which is based 
on RH 7.3. This machine is a Sun E250 formerly running Solaris 8. Aurora 
is worth a look, it's worked flawlessly on my Ultra5 at home too. 
(running X)
 From the Aurora web site:
Thursday, September 26th, 2002: The Aurora SPARC Linux Project to 
announce Build 0.4 (Titanium) to the world. This time, it comes with a 
healthy serving of fully functional tftp, and a nice new 2.4.19 kernel 
for dessert. On top of that, we even succeeded in making it do a GUI 
install on a Sun Blade 100.
and
Monday July 1st, 2002: The Aurora SPARC Project is proud to announce 
Build 0.3 (Phoenix) to the world. With the exception of Anaconda, 
Phoenix is a complete 7.3 based tree, including KDE3, Gnome 1.4, XFree86 
4.2.0, a 2.4.18 kernel, and both gcc 2.96 & 3.1 compilers.

http://auroralinux.org/

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