reintro and pkgng aghastness

Wed Feb 4 06:31:08 UTC 2015

The 360, if I recall correctly, is the one with very little cache, right?
Way less than the 333 or 4(4|0)0, right?
Not sure that it matters now, but the lack of a proper cache might result
in severe performance penalties.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> hah, awesome.  My 360 could reach mind-smashing speeds of, like, 396 or
> something   D:
>
> Hmm, those 370-3799s you mentioned are $16 on ebay atm...  Tempted..
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 8:42 PM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://web.archive.org/web/20150204014108/http://www.ezplanet.net/xwiki/bin/view/KnowledgeBase/SunUltra5Overclocking
>>
>> --curt
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:29 PM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> it also runs the 440 mhz ultrasparc.  the specs say 400 is the limit,
>>> but hey, 10% more cpu is there, too.  just don't overclock it - I did fry
>>> one 440 mhz cpu that way.
>>>
>>> --curt
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Torsten Kirschner <
>>> torsten.kirschner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> No, like he wrote, the only reason why the U5 was "limited" to 512 MB
>>>> was that the tall modules wouldn't fit, because the space was occupied by
>>>> the floppy drive.
>>>> Low sticks fit nicely under it. There are low profile sticks with 256
>>>> MB each.
>>>> The U5 runs 1GB RAM exactly like an U10.
>>>>
>>>> Den onsdag 4. februar 2015 skrev Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
>>>> følgende:
>>>>
>>>> really, you found a way to get to 1G?  I thought only 512 was possible
>>>>> even
>>>>> with the weird tall sticks?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:53 PM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > I've also had luck putting the tall memory modules in an ultra 5,
>>>>> bumping
>>>>> > it to 1G ram.  this did take me removing the (quite useless) floppy
>>>>> drive.
>>>>> > later, I got some X7039A's, which are low-profile versions.  then I
>>>>> got
>>>>> > room to put another 3.5 inch drive in.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > --curt
>>>>> >
>>>>> > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Jacob Ritorto <
>>>>> jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> hmm, got the 2013 version on CD.  It made it pretty far along but
>>>>> crashed
>>>>> >> and burned whilst loading the miniroot, or whatever they call it, to
>>>>> >> ramdisk.  Memory's just too darn small.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:11 AM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>> I've had luck putting a sata to scsi adaptor on a DVD.  should be
>>>>> able
>>>>> >>> to boot that.  also, there's plenty of IDE dvd's around.  you'd
>>>>> have to
>>>>> >>> open the ultra 5 up, though :->
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> --curt
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Jacob Ritorto <
>>>>> jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
>>>>> >>> wrote:
>>>>> >>>
>>>>> >>>> Was just about to do that - I have it running on my T1000.  But
>>>>> >>>> Martin's open source politics scared me a little a few months ago
>>>>> - he
>>>>> >>>> pulled everything OpenSXCE-related from the Internet and there
>>>>> was no
>>>>> >>>> recourse for the OpenSXCE user community.  Maybe it's worth
>>>>> another go now
>>>>> >>>> that that appears to be sorted out.  Unfortunately there's no way
>>>>> for me to
>>>>> >>>> load the 2014 bits on my Ultra5 as it's a dvd-only release :\
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> thx
>>>>> >>>> jake
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:41 PM, zenxyzzy <zenxyzzy at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >>>>
>>>>> >>>>> There's another option that maybe you shouldn't ignore.
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> OpenSxce.  it's illumos plus a lot of hackery minus a lot of
>>>>> stupidity
>>>>> >>>>> for Sparc.  I run it happily on my Sun Blade 1000.  modern ZFS
>>>>> and
>>>>> >>>>> everything.
>>>>> >>>>> XVR-1000 support.  root on SSD.  fan control support - this
>>>>> clinched
>>>>> >>>>> it for me.  neither linux or freebsd can turn the freaking fan
>>>>> off or down.
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> plus source.
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> plus, runs solaris 11 binaries from that "O"ther company.
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> get it from opensxce.org
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> --curt
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Jacob Ritorto <
>>>>> jacob.ritorto at gmail.com
>>>>> >>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> >>>>>>   I'd been away from FreeBSD for fifteen years, but I'm back
>>>>> and I'm
>>>>> >>>>>> pleased to announce that I'm using a computer that's from
>>>>> around the
>>>>> >>>>>> time I
>>>>> >>>>>> left FreeBSD :)  It's a nice little Sun Ultra 5.  Bone stock;
>>>>> doesn't
>>>>> >>>>>> even
>>>>> >>>>>> look like the case has ever been open. I recently had to stop
>>>>> using
>>>>> >>>>>> Solaris
>>>>> >>>>>> because they're became evil and Illumos because they're kind of
>>>>> not
>>>>> >>>>>> supporting this hardware anymore.  I tried OpenBSD, but its
>>>>> >>>>>> applications
>>>>> >>>>>> just crashed.  So here I pragmatically am.
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>>   I like FreeBSD.  I didn't leave out of disgust or anything;
>>>>> mostly
>>>>> >>>>>> just
>>>>> >>>>>> employment being all-Sun years ago.  So it's cool revisiting it
>>>>> and
>>>>> >>>>>> seeing
>>>>> >>>>>> all the changes and all the stayed-the-sames.
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>>   I'm pretty exited about the new FreeBSD pkgng system.  I had
>>>>> the
>>>>> >>>>>> extreme
>>>>> >>>>>> pleasure of using it whilst installing my SPARC last night
>>>>> (which,
>>>>> >>>>>> unfortunately, took from mid evening until around 4:30 in the
>>>>> >>>>>> morning. (I
>>>>> >>>>>> didn't have any cds or floppies at my disposal, so I instead
>>>>> built the
>>>>> >>>>>> network / diskless system installl on a virtualbox vm on my Mac
>>>>> and
>>>>> >>>>>> installed FreeBSD to the SPARC from there).  Good old
>>>>> >>>>>> rarp/boopt/tftp/nfs!
>>>>> >>>>>> Reminded me of Sun Jumpstart!  I was really pleased that this
>>>>> way of
>>>>> >>>>>> doing
>>>>> >>>>>> things still works on FreeBSD  Truly a slick and smart design.
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>>   But is it true that I can't actually use pkgng on my real
>>>>> computer
>>>>> >>>>>> because It's not a PC?
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>>   I've been looking around the Internet for some hours, now, to
>>>>> no
>>>>> >>>>>> avail.
>>>>> >>>>>> Are there seriously *no* package repos for SPARC?
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>>   If that's the case, I'd like to help remedy it.  I've read
>>>>> around
>>>>> >>>>>> on how
>>>>> >>>>>> to contribute, but it seems none of what's out there pertains to
>>>>> >>>>>> pkgng for
>>>>> >>>>>> sparc.
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>>   Please let me know if I'm understanding the situation right
>>>>> and how
>>>>> >>>>>> I can
>>>>> >>>>>> help, if help is wanted.  I have a lot of SPARCs and they need a
>>>>> >>>>>> trustworthy operating system with software package system that
>>>>> >>>>>> doesn't have
>>>>> >>>>>> to be manually-wrought.
>>>>> >>>>>>
>>>>> >>>>>> "Oh, wow, it just finished its five-plus-hour ports build of
>>>>> freaking
>>>>> >>>>>> tmux!"
>>>>> >>>>>> jake
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>>>>> >>
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