[Aurora-sparc-user] Installing Aurora LINUX on Sparc20

[T. Ribbrock]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 08:05:40PM -0400, venn wrote:
> I second this. Running X on a 20 is not much of an option.

Of course, for what the OP wants to do, X is not needed, but otherwise,
running X on an SS20 as such works just fine. Of course, you must not run a
resource-hog like Gnome or KDE, but a lightweight window manager (my
preference is Window Maker, but there are even lighter ones) works. I've
had such a set-up running on my SS20 which has two 75MHz CPUs and a CG14
(SX) framebuffer. This was under Aurora 1.0. I pretty much stopped
toying with that machine with the advent of 1.92, as SMP was no longer
supported with kernel 2.6.

BTW: I even had X with Window Maker running on an SS5/170, which was
very workable. Also, X with Window Maker works very well on an U10/440,
even with a Raptor (even better with a Creator). ;-)

Cheerio,

Thomas
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