HELP NEEDED

Hey.

I've been doing some -current sparc packages, but stopped that as noone seemed interested. If there's more interest, I can start doing them again and contribute to the Splack project. All I need is some users who would test my packages.

If you can and want to test my packages, feel free to do that. Binary packages, sources and SlackBuilds are available at http://slackware.pl/sparc-current/

Feedback appreciated. (preferably to the splack-devel ML, or privately)

Thanks,
s.

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Hiya,

I'll lend a hand if you need me. I hated seeing Slackintosh go from lack of interest, so I don't want Splack to see a similar fate. 'Course, Sun machines are far more plentiful at my home than Apples.

I've been tracking -current to the best of my ability on a pair of Ultra 10s and a few sun4m-class boxes. At one time a few months back I had a fairly up-to-date assortment of software running on an Ultra, including X. The only thing I could never get right was any kind of update to Glibc or GCC, let alone at the same time. Since then, I've kind of let it lag due to my workload with university studies and other activities. :(

I've started investigating the Linux-From-Scratch approach for building a more modern toolchain than the one provided in the 24oct2k3 ISO image. I've read that GCC 3.4 breaks binary compatibility with previous GCC3 versions (which in turn broke compatibility with GCC2), so I was planning on throwing everything away and starting over as my summer project. Now that I've heard the parent project is in trouble, I might as well contribute back, right? :)

I'm available to do documentation, testing, patch hunting, builds, or whatever else. Point me at a target and I'll do my best. I wouldn't push my graphic design skills too hard, though!

Regards,
Jason

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Thanks for the response so far - It looks like we may save it.
It would be best to give it a little more time to see what else pops up and then start a discussion on who does what.

Thanks again.

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I have a Sun Sparcstation 5 Decked out with 256Mb Ram and
a 2Gb hd.

I think Splack 10 beta is going in the right direction. We
need to create an up-to date, installable version.

I've been tring to create a cross-compiler for sparc on my
x86 box, what versions of glib + GCC would you recommend.
(I tried to use GCC 4.0.0 and glibc 2.1.3, failed very
badly :) )


any way, i have some programing experience, lots of web
design experience (php,mysql,html), and i'm running
slackware 10.1 ;D


--alex
webmaster:AT:stolenbandwidth.net

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Sorry for my English....

I think slackware is the best (for me) distribution. I want it works on sparc. I have various sparc-machines (sparcclasic, ultras 1, blade 100, sparcstation 2, 4, 10, 20, Ultra 60). Actually i am probing gentoo-sparc and it works great but i would like slackware worked also. I never have installed splack but i think i know well slackware-i386.

If you need help I can help.

Thanks from Madrid.

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I have an Ultra 5 which I'm working on now. Let me know how I can help. I'm working on getting the latest glibc, binutils, and gcc running, and on getting it up to 2.6 kernel standards.

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Hi there,

I've been using Slackware in the intel platform since I was at the University (Slackware 3.1).

I have tried all the linux sparc distros in my Ultra 10 Workstation but I will prefer "splack simplicity" for always, how can I help you?

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I have old sun server 220R enterprize with 2 Ultrasparc II. I have installed Splack 8.0 and update it to current. I have recompile some packages last week: openssl,openssh. Tried to compile samba and xorg. I and our LUG (Donetsk, Ukraine) will try to help you.

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Hi, all.

I'm new to these pages. I've been a linux sys admin on and off for 6 years, usually Red Hat or Debian. I installed Slack on ix86 some time ago, with mixed success. I have just got a Sparc Station 20 with 2Gb HDD and 256 megs. If I can be of any help, please let me know. Unfortunately I don't have any programming skills (yet!), but am trying to "cut my teeth" on Bash scripting.

Many thanks,

Chris.

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