On Thursday 01 March 2007 02:05 pm, Dave Miner wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: > ... > > > I have serious concerns here as well, which is why I asked about caiman > > pulling in bits of gnome. > > > > I don't know about anybody else, but I regard the current memory minimum > > as excessive. The 768M minimum for the developer edition ought to be > > considered unacceptable. > > If you're going to argue with me or anyone based on what you saw in the > developer edition, then please just stop. We didn't have *any* wiggle > room there to make things do more than basically work because of the > schedule and functionality dictated. I hope I was completely clear in > stating that we're assuming we'll still be in 512 MB once we're in a > position to do some actual engineering. And the usage of the Gnome L&F > is basically non-negotiable from a Solaris perspective. Other distros > can do what they want, but we've got marketing and branding and UI > design people to answer to; any argument there is a waste of energy.
Let's be very clear also. The memory requirements are because of integrating Xorg into the miniroot and using it for the install. This is evolution that was needed to take us into the future, and have a long term solution. Sun is fully aware of the memory constraints, and decided to do what they did. I don't think it was an un-educated decision, and had most of the community folks been inovolved in making it, I bet they would have done the same thing. Nobody will argue that it is excessive, tell me something new. With that said, most all of the server type machines running Solaris have the memory needed. It was the laptops/workstations that had 512mb that were mostly effected. Mostly laptops with 512mb, most low end workstation/server have had more than 1gig for several years. I don't have any system with less than 2gig, laptops included. I have a couple sparc systems in the lab with 1gig though. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of Insourcing at Sun, hire people that care about our company!
