Juan Casero wrote: > I own a Sun Blade 1000, Sun Blade 2000, Sun Ultra 30, and a Sun Enterprise > 450 server. I am looking to buy a Sun Blade 2500 in the near term. I have > been desperately waiting for a version of Opensolaris that will run on these > platforms. I use the Sun4u (Sun Blade 1000/2000) more than the the ultra > 30. I would definitely need a desktop environment as I use these machines > as workstations. My preference is for the sparc port to behave exactly > like the x86/x64 distro of opensolaris. I do not need the live cd a regular > install method like what is available with linux is fine. But I do need the > full complement of software, X server (preferrably hardware accelerated), > gcc, and gnu utils. I also want to be able to use the Sun Studio Express > compilers on this platform. >
Today, you can use SXCE. An SXCE install can be made to "look like" OpenSolaris, but the underlying structure is different -- especially packaging. Go for it! -- richard _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
