[Sussex] LINUX on Sun 64bit Kit

[Steve Dobson]

Geoff/Neil

> From: Neil Ford 
> On 10/9/02 1:10 pm, "Geoff Teale" <Geoff.Teale at claybrook.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hey Slugs,
> > 
> > Does anyone know what level of support there is in LINUX and XFree86 for
> > Sun's 3D accelerator cards?
> > 
> > For instance, would something like the Expert3D-Lite card that comes in
Sun
> > Blade 100 workstations be properly supported under LINUX?
> 
> Sun are working on Sun Linux which is being developed for the 
> Blade range. I know this because a friend of mine is one of the developers

> on the project (and he's a FreeBSD committer!) He gave quite an
interesting 
> talk at the last FreeBSD UK User Group meeting regarding the differences 
> between Linux and FreeBSD and what they could, possibly, learn from each
other.

Debian already support ultraSPARC in 64-bit mode, don't know about the
graphics card support in XF86 - You'll probably need the latest version.

> Sun Linux is basically messed about DeadRat.

Trust Sun to get it wrong again - why not just submit the patches to the
appropriate project?

Steve