I've been a little distracted lately. My gf was hospitalized over the weekend for a blood clot between her lungs, so I haven't been devoting much time to Aurora. Build 0.3 is essentially done. I'm really just kicking the tires, hoping the auroraconda workers will have something bootable in time. Anyways, shes back home now, recovering, so heres the little update.

Aurora:

Rebuilt the kernel a few more times. Adjusted the patchset according to Dave M's recommendations, added the sun4c patch. Also stripped down the sparc64 boot kernel even more. Its the primary target for auroraconda. sparc32 will come afterwards.

Booted build 0.3 on the ss2. The hardware is very unhappy, I think it simply is flaky hardware. Kernel boots, but it has unpredictable behavior. The hard drive it shipped with was DOA, so I'm using one of my spares for testing. X started, as did Gnome 1.4, but Nautilus refused to do anything except complain that it wasn't going to run (after 10 minutes of grinding). If you're using an ss2 as an X terminal, you need to spend the 100 bucks and get a new computer. No offense.

ErikLevy: Congrats. :)