[csw-users] Newbie with SS10/Sol9 having problems.

[Thomas Amm]

On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:38:33 -0400
Josh Kuperman <josh.kuperman at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have been trying to use the blastwave software but I have a lot of  
> problems. I have managed to install Solaris 9 on a SparcStation 10  
> with Twin Ross HyperSparc CPUs from a set of CDs I downloaded last  
> year. I seem to have a lot of problems. Most of the small programs  
> are fine, but I've been unable to get mozilla or gnome or kde to  
> install.
> 
> Should I just toss this thing? ( I would have killed for one like it  
> a decade (maybe a bit more than a decade) ago).

sun4m are no longer supported by Solaris, but you can still have fun
with it, running Linux or some BSD. I am running Debian-Sparc on a
Classic, it works quite good. It also ran well under OpenBSD.