On 10/24/20 1:17 AM, Connor McLaughlan wrote: > While i really appreciate the effort to keep this port around, i found > it a few inches away to really be usable as a reliable desktop system. > For server software without framebuffer, it might work well, but most > desktop programs aside from the basic desktop environment like lxde or > mate will bus error/segfault or be not installable due to not > available dependencies.
If you run into issue like reproducible crashes, please report them, CC'ing this mailing list. We can only fix issues that people are reporting (unsurprisingly ;)). > You can go and fake a few packages to get stuff running and also use > snapshot.debian.org to install dependencies and eventually get a > firefox 50 running. Well, the main problem is that Mozilla upstream has added a hard dependency on NodeJS for building Firefox even though it is not strictly necessary. And NodeJS has very limited platform support as it's based on a Google product. > I guess the main problem is the vanishing userbase of sparc, and it > feels like each distribution has only one member left to look out for > the port. Not many people test and report bugs it seems. And possibly > there is also less interest in fixing them upstream. No, the main problem are the lack of reports. > For now i am dualbooting (plugging harddrives) between netbsd and > linux on my sparc machines. While i found the linux kernel is more > stable, sometimes debian seems to corrupt the filesystem and needs a > reinstall. The servers building the packages are running 24/7 without corrupting their filesystems, so you might have issues with your hardware. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
