On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Trevor J. Mahan wrote:

> I picked up a really nice Sparc 5 from a corporate auction here locally.
> It has an S24 Graphics card, a 10/100 Ethernet card, max ram of 256,
> 170mhz cpu, and 2x 4.3 gig HD's.  I'm running OS X on my G3 and really
> liking the BSD roots, so I thought I tried NetBSD on this machine.
>
> First question is about compatibility.  On the Sparc Linux the 170mhz
> version of the Sparc 5 is not really supported....seems to crash often
> according to sources on the net.  Is this true for NetBSD, or is there
> full support?
>
	I'm running one as a server for a whole bunch of people
	(muon.mono.org), including NFS serving to a group of clients.
	Rock Solid would be the term that comes to mind :)

> Second question is whether there is any work being done for support of
> the 24bit graphics card past the CG3 8 bit level.  If so, where would
> and how would I install this.
>
> Third, are the packages that are available on line such that they will
> work on Sparc just by executing them?  Will I need to do any changes,
> say, to get the Gimp to run or Afterstep?

	pkgsrc :)

	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/software/packages.html

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