Re: deb-sparc X and other questions
it wasn't in my dselect list, but I got it in.. didn't work, but that's another issue..
On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:28:27PM +1000, Q89029292 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Xfree 4 is missing?
>
> Have you tried obtaing it using apt-get? After running apt-get update you
> can search the archives at home using "$apt-cache search xfree" or search
> for anything else for that matter.
>
> N.B. I'm using it on a leo equipped classic, isn't noticably faster than
> xserver-xsun24 however.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter Firmstone.
>
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001 mstockda@dti.net wrote:
>
> > Hey everyone-
> >
> > Let me preface this say saying that if the answers to the questions I am about to ask are in a FAQ somewhere, please just point me to it.. a quick search of the web and persual of the list archives still leaves me with questions, however, so...
> >
> > 1) What's the general state of the debian-sparc port (from a day to day usage viewpoint, rather than a feature-list viewpoint). I'm trying to decide what OS to run on my SS20, between debian, OpenBSD, and Solaris.. Basically, I want to run a bunch of xterms and a browser (konquerer, mozilla, whichever).. The key being, I want to do it in 24bit color. which brings me to my next questions.
> >
> > 2) What's the state of debian-sparc and cg14 support in Xfree 4.0.2? I installed debian and upgraded to woody, but the actual Xfree 4 xserver is nowhere to be found (even a quick manual check of the mirrors show it to be missing). Am I going to have to build it from source? (I have the source package from brandens site. it takes a _long_ time for the build to fail on my SM50 cpu :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> >
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