Jim, >> For a while now I've been working on a new distribution based >> on OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana/Illumos. >> >> The aim is to produce something that's traditionally styled but has >> much more up to date components than Solaris 10 (or the current >> derivatives, come to that). Packaging is SVR4 (underneath, anyway); >> the primary desktop will be Xfce. > > > So, basically, this is the replacement for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris > SXCE releases - based on current opensourced components from illumos > kernel and OI userland parts?
I wouldn't call it *the* replacement, that's way off base. But certainly if Solaris 10 and SXCE were what you wanted, this would be closer in many ways than the other distros (and more divergent in other ways). I'm not expecting to pull much of the userland from OI in the long term. I certainly don't anticipate building JDS, for example - I'll build Xfce from scratch instead. > Great! :) Thanks! > Can we LiveUpgrade into it (in the future, of course)? ;) Not as such - Live Upgrade is a proprietary closed-source technology. But something similar would be feasible, certainly. All it is is cloning the install and updating packages before rebooting into the new target. > I guess nothing precludes it from running on SPARC in due time, too? Nothing at all. It'll be harder, of course - I bootstrapped x86 directly off a running OI151a7 system. But it shouldn't be that hard to do the same off the repo or proto area produced by an Illumos build. Testing is much harder for sparc, without VirtualBox or equivalents - I'm guessing I did ~100 iso builds and boots before I was reasonably happy (although a lot of those were mistakes and part of the learning process that wouldn't need to be repeated). -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
