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Old 04-15-2005, 11:54 PM   #16
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Hello sidboyce,

all that was required was downloading the Gentoo Sparc minimal live/install cd and booting it. The install was pretty much the same as a regular gentoo install.

I am using openprom to boot. If I do nothing then solaris boots, and if I do a stop-a, then type "boot disk1" then gentoo boots.

Everything installed real slick, except for getting X working, but with a little help from the gentoo-sparc mailing list I was able to get an xorg.conf file which worked perfect.
 
Old 04-16-2005, 09:53 PM   #17
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Thanks, I shall first upgrade to Solaris 10 GA, then get another disk for Gentoo.
 
Old 04-24-2005, 08:58 AM   #18
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Quote:
Originally posted by wpn146
In performance, I think you will find it to be about the same as x86 at the same speed. It is not nearly as fast as my 2.8ghz linux box, but it is very stable.
Are you sure? i would have assumed it would be much faster being

- Hardware-wise, its better engeneered than a 300 - 800Mhz x86 processor (which are usually k5, duron, celeron, p3)

- You have 2 of them

- You have 4 megs of cache on each (compared to amd/intel's 250k - 512k).

Also one should note the fact that SCSI is being used too..

Or am i missing something here?
 
Old 04-25-2005, 07:50 AM   #19
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Multitasking is much smoother on better engineered hardware like a Sparc. However, raw single task speed goes to brute force engineering :-) That's the simplest way I can think to describe it. They each have their own feel, and place in the computing world...
 
  


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