Message-ID: <1A8904C3797ED411AC2E0008C7E6F88117C856@nlntmail2b.ats.nld.alcatel.nl> From: "Witvliet, Hans" <Hans.Witvliet@Alcatel.nl> Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 09:39:42 +0200 Subject: RE: [suse-sparc] Use SparcStation 10 as X-Term?
Hi Lothar,
To be briefly the answers are: YES and Probably!
I installed linux on some machines (SS4, SS5, SS10, SS20) here at work, and
they are mostly used as X-terminals.
It works OK, but has following drawbacks:
1) The sgsix gives you only 8-bit graphics, so when starting very
color-consuming applications (gnome, Openview or so) the result might not be
what you expacted.
(there is nothing you can do about that)
2) In contrast to intel machines, you can have only ONE instance of "X"
running on your machine.
(again there is nothing YOU can do about, it's something for the maintainer
of Xsun....)
3) Starting X is slow, you *MIGHT* upgrade you CPU, at home i have in my
sparc two 70MHz cpu's.
I would suggest: intall Suse, try it and than decides wether you want to
spent money on CPU's (ebay)
4) Bandwith compression with "LBX" seems to be unsupported...
(alas, ssh is not a good alternative)
It might sounds negative, but all the people here have the choise between an
X-emulator on M$ and the re-used Sun machines:
No-one uses goglobal, or exceed anymore, just true plain X !
PS, There seems to be a PostScript file on the net (seen it about a year
ago). If you print that on a transparant, stick it on a alumium plate, it
works as a optical mouse pad (or change to an mechanical SUN-mouse).
Hans.
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 2:16 PM
> To: suse-sparc@suse.com
> Subject: [suse-sparc] Use SparcStation 10 as X-Term?
>
> Hi,
>
> iīm new to sun/sparc and i just got an old SparcStation 10. can i use it
> as
> an XTerminal when i install Linux? since i donīt know anythig about the
> performance of this system i need some advice, here some technical
> information
> about the station:
> SparcStation 10
> 32 MB ram
> cgsix framebuffer
> CPU: 1 x 390Z50 (i suppose SM31 module @ 33Mhz?)
> 1,2 GB harddisk
> Type 5 keyboard & optical mouse (without pad...)
> it has no OS installed, but seems to work.
> will this machine work fine as Xterm ?
> what about upgrading ? (cpu/mem?)
> i suppose this box can do smp, but is it worth it?
>
> thanks,
> lothar.
>
>
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