> >> Well they did not start from scratch but from my experiences. I was the > >> only > >> person who did start from scratch. > > > > > > Maybe on x86 ... > > > > Cheers, > > www.martux.org/xorg > > > >> > > http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/44 > > I still have martux running here and it runs just fine. There are a LOT of > mounted lofiadm style filesystems but that is a feature of martux. > > Dennis
Hi, that was marTux_0.2 for x86/64. However, the many lofi-mounts are actually not a "feature of martux" (at the max a "characteristicum"), but rather a feature that Solaris has potentially offered since early 2000. And I used two of Moinak Ghosh's / Belenix's ideas and Moinak Ghosh's publically_and_openly_available_code to double LiveCD/DVD capacity, while quadripling hsfs io throughput performance (literally, believe it). I used Rainer Orth's UltraSPARC_1 revival patches. Menno Lageman has invested lots of effort to prepare and set up a 32 threads T2000 for me, with full ALOM root access, with snv63 pre-installed ready to use. To get sun4v support tested and going (works, except for Xorg). I'm currently trying to port Xorg's pci bus scanning to the sun4v pci bridge. Yet another time based on the work of others (taking comments in the Linux and BSD kernels as reference). Al Hopper (and Ben Rockwood) have set up the martux.org domain for me, have uploaded marTux to www.genunix.org. I could also list my girl-friend and my family, who are giving me critical support. I initially (once, back last year in March) also took ideas from Schillix's "distro-kit". On x86/x64 Joerg Schilling allowed me to adopt his method of finding and mounting the proper live media CD/DVD (I have "my own" approach on sparc). And a lot of his other outstanding tools can be used as well, because I naturally put them on-board (cdrecord, smake, star etc.). Much further: I used Blastwave's entire massive and excellent /opt/csw distribution (9GB on a plain 4.7GB DVD, thanks to Belenix's methods). And I never made a secret of the fact, that martux is indeed based on the good work of many people. Many. See /etc/release on the x86/x64 LiveDVD (http://www.martux.org/RELEASES/x86_and_x64/DVD/), where I list every single Blastwave maintainer. OpenSource should ideally be a harmony of taking <--> and giving. I have taken many other's IP. <--> I'm also giving away some code and ideas: I encourage anyone (or any distro) to use (or adopt) Xorg on sparc, which itself is, again, based on the work of many brilliant minds) : http://www.martux.org/xorg/ I have also made it clear that "my" method of getting LiveMedia working on sparc can be freely cloned. It is quite different from how things work on x86, due to the problem that the "/"-fs doesn't sit in a writable ramdisk, but continues to stay on readonly CD/DVD media. Also my method of creating the actual iso files is unique, but can be freely used by anyone who is interested. I already said a few words on that during OSDEVCON2007. More documentation is to be followed, as soon as I finally join the OpenSolaris Starter Kit community. Anyone who wants it instantly should write me a mail. Taking and giving. Schillix is open to so much opportunity, so much. Others may have taken ideas from you. They are already waiting for you to go vice versa. My heart is bleeding when I see discussions like that, like "my car is faster", "my wife is more beautiful", "my son's IQ is higher", sort of. I like OpenSolaris, as a whole living project. Growth happens through multiplication, not division. Martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
