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Sure. I'm using Sawfish with the Crux theme. The desktop environment is XFCE4.

I haven't really compared the performance, all I can say for sure is that upgrading is slower since you have to compile everything yourself.
The reason I use it is for the flexibility it brings.

I'm using gentoo (64bit userland) on the X5000. I used to run 32bit userland with 64bit multilib on the X1000, but there were some packages (notably the "go" programming language) which did not work correctly so I switched on the X5000.

There are quite a few packages that need local patches to work ...

The problem with the 3.5GB RAM restriction has been fixed. :-)
Cool! So you mean that we can have

More than 4G RAM
HW accelerated 3D
PCI cards
all at the same time? And it's 4.13 that makes it possible?

Awesome! I've been running with software 3D forever because I don't want to give up my ...

I got some time do dig more into this, so I tried building kernel version 4.4.0 and 4.5.0, and booting them with the device tree present in the upstreams kernel sources for the respective version.

None of them gave me working gigabit ethernet; although the dmesg for 4.5.0 looked rather promising ...

You might be interested in trying this X5000 Gentoo Minimal Install USB image that I did .
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2d49mn4l215ab9p/Gentoo_1.img?dl=0
image is of a 512mb SD card so not too big.
Have only only checked that it boots ok but have not tried an actual installation.
You should probably ...

@Spectre660

Well, here is what I did try:

* Get the 4.9.25 sources from kernel.org
* Apply the patch from your archive (some chunks failed though...)
* Build with my own kernel config (but enable CONFIG_CYRUS)
* Use my own DTB

Not really any improvement though. fsl_mac appears in dmesg like ...

This commit may be relevant:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke ... edcf69e29d
It adds PHY topology info to a lot of QorIQ boards, but not to the Cyrus one...

Well, that made a difference at least, but not to the better: now fman fails to init: Which kernel version does this DTB work with?

Nope, adding VITESSE_PHY made no difference, the dmesg error is the same as before. If I use the DTB from Ubuntu MATE Live USB the interfaces don't even show up in ifconfig.

If you have a working DTS/DTB then I would love to get it.

TIA