Re: way forward for old sparc?

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 5, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:

> I have a sparc classic mostly as a toy, and it's running 1.6.   
> Obviously
> it needs new bits, but it only has 64 MB of ram.  I am inclined to
> binary update it to netbsd-4 via a build on i386 Is that a reasonable
> thing to do?  Any advice to go to netbsd-3 instead?

Even -current works just fine with 64MB. I'm very sure it would work  
with a lot less too - memory really isn't your problem with that  
classic. If I were you I'd go look for a cg6 to get reasonably fast  
console and X - the classic's onboard graphics is a cg3 which is just  
a dumb framebuffer with no acceleration whatsoever. It won't run any  
fancy gtk2 or KDE stuff un a usable way but it's more than enough for  
a halfway decent window manager and a bunch of xterms.

have fun
Michael

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