On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Alex Viskovatoff <viskovat...@imap.cc> wrote: > Instead of porting (Open)Solaris to every conceivable architecture, one area > where the time of both Oracle developers and the OpenSolaris community would > be better spent would completing the functionality of BrandZ for Latex 2.6, > for example. Developers outside Sun made two contributions to the LiInux > brand which Sun incorporated into the codebase: support of Latex 2.6 itself > (as opposed to 2.4, which is what Sun developers worked on), and support for > some new system calls. Chromium (Chrome for Linux) doesn't work in a Linux > branded zone because Chromium runs each of its tabs in a separate process, > but the system call used for that isn't implemented in the Latex brand. I > think making Chromium run on (Open)Solaris would impress the typical Linux > (or Windows user, for that matter) more than porting OpenSolaris to ARM.
What are we talking about? You do have all the time in the world to get Chromium running, because unlike the PowerPC port the ARM port was completed: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+osarm/ http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+osarm/installation http://alexeremin.blogspot.com/2009/06/first-opensolaris-arm-release.html http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/06/opensolaris-200906-released-new-arm-port-announced.ars http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/10/opensolaris_arm_port/ %mab _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
