Hey, Alan DuBoff wrote: > Not directly related, but what is Indiana's plans for sparc? > > I notice that most communities are not focused on or working on sparc, > and as such, much of it doesn't have support. > > I know that we do plans to have a working KDE for sparc, but Xorg, as an > example doesn't have sparc support (thankfully we have x86 support, a > big round of applause go to the x86 Xorg team for that;-), nor do many > of the distributions such as Nexenta, or I think Indiana is not > supporting it first round at least. > > sparc is going to have a tough future for open source, most communities > are not worried about it. I guess this means that sparc systems will be > relegated to running Sun's Solaris product. I see that as the lid on the > coffin starting to close...lack of open source is going to bite hard.
SPARC's very much a 'need to have', though I understand the technical difficulties currently in providing that. I'm very glad various groups in Sun are slowly tackling it, and getting closer to that goal - it will take a while, but that will happen in parallel with the 6 month release schedule. Glynn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
