First Community OpenSolaris SPARC Distro Released

marTux 0.1 Released by Martin Bochnig at Blastwave

Date : Thu Apr 13 09:38:36 EDT 2006

marTux_0.1 LiveCD for Sparc is the first non-SX/SXCR OpenSolaris distribution for Sparc (sun4u for now, sun4v later).

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It is already features :

a complete gcc3 built X.Org X11R6.9
(incl. the actual Xorg server binary and therefore
finally with drivers supporting a few pci sparc frame buffers).
These are the first working X.Org binaries for sparc - Solaris EVER RELEASED!

See it running on a SunBlade 2000 / Raptor GFX 8P :

last pid: 289511;  load averages: 0.54,  0.43,
0.388
15:05:56
183 processes: 141 sleeping, 4 running, 37 stopped, 1 on cpu
CPU states: 83.5% idle, 10.2% user,  6.3% kernel,  0.0% iowait,  0.0% swap
Memory: 4096M real, 105M free, 9339M swap in use, 1269M swap free

   PID USERNAME LWP PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE    TIME    CPU COMMAND
101709 root       1  59   -1  548M  322M run     26.8H 10.42% Xorg
289511 root       1  59    0 3728K 2160K cpu      0:00  1.38% top
287416 root       1  59    0 5880K 1688K run    132:30  1.37% ssh
103399 root       2  59    0  102M   36M sleep   30:27  1.35%
gnome-terminal
289168 root       5  59    0  183M  117M run      7:24  1.06% mozilla-bin
[...]
101719 root       1  59    0 7512K 1296K sleep   14:15  0.09% xclock
101712 root       1  59    0 5928K 2312K sleep    3:36  0.06% fvwm2
287166 root       1  59    0 5856K 1968K sleep    2:25  0.04% xterm
187418 root       1  59    0 5792K 1544K sleep    3:06  0.04% xterm
103396 root       1  59    0 6008K 1200K sleep    2:07  0.02% xterm
# uname -a
SunOS mb1x-ws1 5.11 marTux_0.1 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
# isainfo -v
64-bit sparcv9 applications
        vis2 vis
32-bit sparc applications
        vis2 vis v8plus div32 mul32
#

The initial homepage will be at http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~mbeinsx/marTux starting over the night / tomorrow.

I'll make the currend marTux_01.iso image available within the next 48 hours or less.

This v0.1 release is unstable ALPHA software.

Please report your experience to bochnig@pool.math.tu-berlin.de

Good luck!

Friendly,
Martin Bochnig
http://www.blastwave.org/maintainers/bochnig



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