Gentoo on SPARC: Calling all Gentoo-GURUs!

Andrew Mathews andrew_mathews
Mon May 17 11:39:31 PDT 2004


Keith Morse wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> 
> 
>>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)
> 
> 
> 
> What are your impressions so far comparing AuroraLinux to Solaris 8?  I'm 
> just in the process of buying a E250 from Ebay and am concerned about the 
> binary license legal requirement of  a Sun Binary license for this type of 
> host.
> 
> _______________________________________________

The only issue I had was during the install, as it didn't like a GUI 
install. (locks hard) But it's a server, so X wasn't/isn't important on 
that particular box. I'm not familiar with Sun's license on this, how is 
it worded?

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Andrew Mathews
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