Hi, You can run a text installer, which is similar to the old Windows NT/2000/XP setup proceedure; which isn't too bad.
The bigger problem is how much of the hardware is proprietary and unsupported on either Linux or some other operating system - with that being said, I assume its got all the Intel goodies; HD Audio, Integrated Video, Intel Pro/Wirelss combo - basically its a walking billboard for Intel technology. As for Sun; depends on how much money they would need to spend; 99% of the hardware is probably supported out there via *BSD licenced drivers, it would be a matter of porting it over, then stablising a build of OpenSolaris to base it on, then ontop of that - everyones favourite, testing. At the end of it, I think the question that needs to be answered is whether the grand pissing competition really worth the money that will need to be outlayed for it to happen - maybe Sun can class it as a 'charitable donation' and plonk some of the costs against tax - I'm unsure about the US tax system; but assuming that if atleast one recognised charity asks for 'Solaris on the laptop' Sun might be able to write it off. Mathew On 3/24/07, Stewart, David C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I can ask around and see if there is an opportunity here for Solaris as well. Believe the classmate PC has been going on long before the Sun-Intel alliance. One thing I noticed is that the HW platform described only has 256MB of memory. When I tried to install an OpenSolaris build the other day on a machine with 512MB, the install failed due to my machine not having enough memory - wanted 796MB or some such. Is this just a packaging issue? Can Solaris run on "small" machines? Are there implementations which run on really tiny things like cell phones and the like? Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joerg Schilling Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 5:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Subject: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC? Hi, before it is too late and children will be infiltrated by MS software anywhere on the world, we need Solaris in the Intel competitive HW made against the One Laptop per Child initative. http://www.classmatepc.com/classmatepc-system-hardware.html Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-mktg mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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