Unfortunately PA-RISC doesn't have X support at the console. You can run X on it and have the Windows render on a SPARC, MIPS or Intel platform though.
Thanks, Bryan > On May 5, 2016, at 7:37 PM, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mott...@libero.it> wrote: > > Hi, > > Gregory Edigarov wrote: >> if I want to build a non-wintel system with commodity running OpenBSD without problems, what are my options? >> preferably something non-apple also, which i will be able to connect display, mouse, and keyboard, and hopefully run X, etc. > > since we don't have Raspberry support, then your choice for reasonable (albeit almost all obsolete) platform restricts to ultra-sparc (old sparcs are fun, but slow by any means and also the CPU support is for OpenBSD hit and miss... 2 of my SparcStations are unstable), PPC (some Amiga boards, older Macs) and... nothing else. PA-RISC is fun, but I never tried X there. > And, if you think, the only other machines that could do are Itanium and Alpha. > > > For most of these, you will notice that base OpenBSD stuff works pretty well (as does NetBSD and to a lesser degree Linux) but several bigger application prove quite buggy! Browsers, mail clients.. everything is tested on i386/amd64 only. > SPARC and PPC seem to me more crashy when bad programming happens, which is actually a good thing and a reason to keep computing diversity alive. But I fear it will become worse, the only thing that has a chance is ARM which is used little-endian. Or embedded PPC, which is used also LE. Big Endian will perhaps not even taught at school in 10+ years. > > On Linux I have Firefox running on PPC, but I read that others have issues with it on non-intel. Be prepared to find more bugs than usual. > We at GNUstep take quite some care that things work on PPC, SPARC and ARM, but because I love them :) > > Riccardo
