[SunRescue] turn SPARCs to Xterminals

Mattias Nordlund mathew at eagle.y.se
Sat Sep 4 05:43:38 CDT 1999


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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