[SunRescue] turn SPARCs to Xterminals

Mattias Nordlund mathew at eagle.y.se
Sun Sep 5 04:48:32 CDT 1999


They are now in /pub/xkernel on ftp.eagle.y.se, there is no documentation 
there at the moment, if anyone needs help they can ask me (of list?)

/Mattias


On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Reagen Ward wrote:

> I know that I'd love to try it.  Anything strange about it that we need to know?
> 
> Reagen
> 
> On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 12:43:38PM +0200, Mattias Nordlund wrote:
> > 
> > We use a modifed version of the Xkernel that is based on SunOS 4.x
> > and it works just fine, and only need 4MB ram on each host, and so saving
> > a simm to put in yet another sparc :) I can put the package on our
> > ftp-server if anyone is intrested of it?
> > 
> > /Mattias
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Mark Price wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > While I was looking around yesterday on the internet I found an
> > > interesting package, The SPARC-Linux Xterminal.  It lets you take any
> > > sun4c/sun4m machine with 12MB RAM, framebuffer, monitor, keyboard, mouse
> > > and turn it into an XTerminal.  It boots your Xterminal over the network,
> > > so no floppies or hard disks needed.  I set it up yesterday and am now
> > > using an IPC w/ CG3 and 19" monitor as an Xterminal, booting off my
> > > Pentium 166 linux box.   
> > > 
> > > check it out.
> > > 
> > > http://www2.gol.com/users/gaijin/Linux/
> > > 
> > > - Mark
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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