On Tuesday 06 March 2007 05:15 pm, Dan Price wrote: > I looked a busybox a while back, and think that providing a port to > Solaris would be be a fine project for anyone looking to brush up > their UNIX hacking skills.
Dan, I think BusyBox would be good to have, no question. I do ask myself though, what would we be trying to solve by doing so? Certainly having Solaris/OpenSolaris running on embedded hardware, or hardware with a small footprint, to be advantageous...and this could be the goal...just to get a smaller footprint. Having a clean port for the community to use on Solaris might inspire someone to create a solution using it, so that in itself could be a big plus. I am interested in a project that does such, depending on how my time is sliced up and how much I have. I just want to point out that this thread started in regards to Perl, and there is no Perl component of BusyBox, AFAIK. With that said, having BusyBox for embedded and/or other small footprint systems could be a big plus for the folks wanting to move into that area with OpenSolaris. In fact, I will say this...you would have a very hard time trying to do any type of embedded work without BusyBox, it or a similar solution would be mandatory, IMO. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of insourcing at Sun - hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
