[rescue] *BSD on Sparc?

nick at snowman.net nick at snowman.net
Sun Aug 4 10:12:28 CDT 2002


That statment is totally misleading.  NetBSD barely boots.  If you want an
Opensource os on an O2 try linux.  It now supports X, R10k support is in
the works, as is VICE support & accelerated X, though that will take a
while.
	Nick

On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> On  3 Aug, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > That is not try.  I have yet to see NetBSD running on an Onyx,
> > Challenge, Octane, or Indigo2, or even a lowly Indigo.
> http://www.de.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/
> NetBSD is the world's first Open Source operating system running 
> on Silicon Graphics  O2. 
> [...]
> 2001-05-11 [...] Most notably is new support for the IP22 (Indigo2,
> Indy, Challenge S)
> 
> OK. It is somewhat unfinished yet, but there is somthing. 
> tschuess,
>           Jochen
> Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz



More information about the rescue mailing list