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Well, it's Wednesday morning... this time Friday I will be hanging out in Cleveland, OH with most of the core team. From now till then, I have three more college finals to get through. The conference should be pretty crazy, we have a lot of wonderful speakers, prizes, and good people heading it up.
My systems are coming together nicely. My Ultra 1 3D Creator now has a 1gig SCA HDD, 256mb of RAM, Debian GNU/Linux (2.4.19-64 kernel), and a working NVRAM. I purchased Matt's SPARCstation 20 and will be adding a HDD to that soon, a CD-ROM, and have already pumped up the RAM to 224mb. I am thinking about taking the SM50 CPU from the SS20, throwing it into my SPARCstation 10, buying another ROSS hyperSPARC @ 150mhz, and running dual-150 in the SS20.
I am currently compiling 2.6.6-rc2-mm1, like the kernel upgrading freak I am. It's 5:30am and I will be leaving for Ypsilanti at about 8:00am to get back to EMU so I can maybe sleep some, and then take a final. Sleeping is moot, I need to start doing some weirdo hours so I can run my shifts at NOTACON. If your not there, your really going to miss out.
too bad i am not going to the
too bad i am not going to the conf. my friend who is one of the organizers, is going to get me a conf t-shirt. looking forward to it.
RE: too bad i am not going to the
I'm guessing mattjf? He's a good friend of mine, we actually took the trip down there together. Also, thanks for your vmware 2.6 tips/patches -- I used them when I had to run windows for my job for a while.
VSIMM
If you've got a SS20, be sure to hook up with a VSIMM if you don't already have one. The onboard 24-bit framebuffer absolutely kicks over most anything you can plug into the SBus. You might also consider Aurora Linux as well for your SPARC. It's basically a SPARC specific port RedHat 7.3, but I think they're doing a newer build based on a more recent RH release. And there are apt, up2date, and yum repositories available. It's decently community supported.