Rainer Heilke wrote: >> It's unclear whether it will in fact need more memory, but this >> change has enormous other benefits that are much more important to >> Solaris and Sun as a whole. > > Hmm. I'm curious as to what these are, but that could be for another > day... >
Basically, it has to do with being able to decouple software release cycles from hardware release cycles; the current boot architecture tends to make those too much in lockstep. > > The fact that Belenix runs and installs in 256MB of memory (from an > email I got and need to reply to tonight...) is a positive thying, > and will mean that OpenSolaris variants may "lead the charge" into > the new audience spaces. It will be interesting to see how the "main" > OpenSolaris distribution will move forward with the installer memory > issues. > One thing I try to be careful about is separating OpenSolaris the code based from Solaris the product. We'd like to make the former flexible enough to serve many markets, even if we don't actually do so with the latter. Dave
