Is eBay good enough for searching for SPARC stuff or is there some other place
What should I watch out for
Seems nice to own a SPARC system, even if it's just for the novelty
What is some good cheap desktop hardware that's compatible with openbsd...
Benjamin Peterson
Jack Phillips
eBay's where I got mine. Didn't have any trouble at all. Just look out for the usual problems.
For example, if someone's selling Nintendo's brand new SPARC system that just got released, consider that they're probably hoping to take your money, delay until they can get a system cheap, and then buy it.
I recommend immediately seeking a refund through the service in this case.
Nolan Howard
Huh 3d rendering doesn't seem to work. Sigh. I don't have time to troubleshoot it now. At least hardware acceleration works on the desktop, video plays fine and the desktop isn't lagging.
Andrew White
Dont forget about power consumption after buying it, it will add a lot to what you'll save during purchase.
Wyatt Jones
I recently installed a OpenBSD on an ibook G4, and I haven't been very impressed. There is very little useful software in the ports, and sound fails to function on all of the ibooks/powerbooks I've tried it on. Am I just doing it wrong?
Luke Baker
what do you need to do
Samuel Ward
LibreOffice, A multimedia player, a web browser that supports javascript, etc.. Ya know, stuff that one would use for day to day productivity. These packages all exist on the x86 side, but not so much for PPC.
Dylan King
Anyone answer
Nolan Ramirez
I run NetBSD on macppc and its fine. I use pkgsrc to build everything I need so I don't have to depend on ports.
OpenBSD builds everything on real hardware instead of cross compiling so sometimes it takes a wile to fill out ports on slower hardware after a release.
Jordan Martinez
Older Intel hardware from 2009-2011 is usually compatible