From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 04:51:26 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED555110 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 04:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-x230.google.com (mail-wg0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::230]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 76336D67 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2015 04:51:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f48.google.com with SMTP id x12so42393238wgg.7 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:51:23 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=K6Z72I6KrG/Hj8AuHRNyciO0uG2d13a9EtxKUULHWo4=; b=RkN7bRJwnxkBVVLGs0t/oiBYFA6I6GnnlJcdEwyrPqse6999GhZjhFoafXdSyNDdQ9 m2MA207usXnxrHtrrf6bYkx821ULrTPK+0+8KtVIPctrIuJtvV5IkCvpRDtUFwjHqrht LigD7JoEAmvE22wMa9g6Z+Dr2o55VwOE4AP5qrvUillIaKhDeD8O0fia2U8SXTTnffr0 4qvJ/ljw1d+10yyPa6jaTKFanmFJs+kE8sEs2U+44jRncPPXVMDejhnH0tVBloS5hgFB KSMj6+PYodwwrP6mujZ5hpBu7uYiTI3BIQKVFPPe+1I6OcFYR3iOvuk0wuPcAZkJeq2l XtEg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.200.68 with SMTP id jq4mr42910690wjc.128.1422939076162; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:51:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.27.93.143 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 20:51:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 23:51:16 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: reintro and pkgng aghastness From: Jacob Ritorto To: zenxyzzy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 04:51:26 -0000 Was just about to do that - I have it running on my T1000. But Martin's open source politics scared me a little a few months ago - he pulled everything OpenSXCE-related from the Internet and there was no recourse for the OpenSXCE user community. Maybe it's worth another go now that that appears to be sorted out. Unfortunately there's no way for me to load the 2014 bits on my Ultra5 as it's a dvd-only release :\ thx jake On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, zenxyzzy wrote: > There's another option that maybe you shouldn't ignore. > > OpenSxce. it's illumos plus a lot of hackery minus a lot of stupidity for > Sparc. I run it happily on my Sun Blade 1000. modern ZFS and everything. > XVR-1000 support. root on SSD. fan control support - this clinched it > for me. neither linux or freebsd can turn the freaking fan off or down. > > plus source. > > plus, runs solaris 11 binaries from that "O"ther company. > > get it from opensxce.org > > --curt > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Jacob Ritorto > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I'd been away from FreeBSD for fifteen years, but I'm back and I'm >> pleased to announce that I'm using a computer that's from around the time >> I >> left FreeBSD :) It's a nice little Sun Ultra 5. Bone stock; doesn't even >> look like the case has ever been open. I recently had to stop using >> Solaris >> because they're became evil and Illumos because they're kind of not >> supporting this hardware anymore. I tried OpenBSD, but its applications >> just crashed. So here I pragmatically am. >> >> I like FreeBSD. I didn't leave out of disgust or anything; mostly just >> employment being all-Sun years ago. So it's cool revisiting it and seeing >> all the changes and all the stayed-the-sames. >> >> I'm pretty exited about the new FreeBSD pkgng system. I had the extreme >> pleasure of using it whilst installing my SPARC last night (which, >> unfortunately, took from mid evening until around 4:30 in the morning. (I >> didn't have any cds or floppies at my disposal, so I instead built the >> network / diskless system installl on a virtualbox vm on my Mac and >> installed FreeBSD to the SPARC from there). Good old rarp/boopt/tftp/nfs! >> Reminded me of Sun Jumpstart! I was really pleased that this way of doing >> things still works on FreeBSD Truly a slick and smart design. >> >> But is it true that I can't actually use pkgng on my real computer >> because It's not a PC? >> >> I've been looking around the Internet for some hours, now, to no avail. >> Are there seriously *no* package repos for SPARC? >> >> If that's the case, I'd like to help remedy it. I've read around on how >> to contribute, but it seems none of what's out there pertains to pkgng for >> sparc. >> >> Please let me know if I'm understanding the situation right and how I >> can >> help, if help is wanted. I have a lot of SPARCs and they need a >> trustworthy operating system with software package system that doesn't >> have >> to be manually-wrought. >> >> "Oh, wow, it just finished its five-plus-hour ports build of freaking >> tmux!" >> jake >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-sparc64 >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-sparc64-unsubscribe@freebsd.org >> " >> > >