* MATTHEW WILBY <matthewwi...@btinternet.com> [2011-02-23 10:06]: > Good Morning, > > I've seen various people enquire about when we are going to release a > SPARCiso. > > What I'd like to propose is that we work towards preparing a dev text > installer, > using Illumos and incorporating the the hard work done on g11n, and a recent > build of SFW etc. I think most people are using SPARC based servers as > opposed > to workstations, so I suspect XNV/JDS can follow at a later date if there is > interest. > > I believe it's important to get a *development* release out the door to allow > people to test on the SPARC platform to provide feedback, generate additional > interest and give people an alternative to Oracle tax. > > I'm not suggesting this should be a stable release. I'm not sure what > consolidation versions should be used. > > As I commented on IRC last night I'm willing to put in the effort to help get > this done, but will need some guidance along the way. > > Bad idea or not, I'm hoping that this will get a conversation going as I > believe > we need to make a decision about where we are going with the SPARC > platform.....
Unfortunately you will still need to build "desktop" consolidations such as JDS, which contain rather essential stuff like Python. -- Guido Berhoerster _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
