gnome on SPARC
Well, I got through installing gentoo on the sunblade. Ended up rebooting the system. I think I also left out kernel drivers for sound, but thinking about it now, I can’t remember for sure.
Anyways, now the fun begins: compling gnome. I’ll report some times when I get through it but I expect it to take at least a 24 hours. If I do decide to use this as the OS of choice for our workstations, then I’ll probably move to creating binaries offline. We can’t have systems down for upgrade for that long.
I am excited though because I really haven’t messed around with gentoo as a desktop system before; always cli “servers”. I have been using some Suse systems here at work, but other distro’s frustrate me. It seems it takes me longer to find what apps do what.
Woot! 21 out of 212 packages done, 191 to go!
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