The amd64 issue you raise is an interesting one. Something we should care quite a bit about, actually. We already have computers with 4 GB of RAM being a common thing. With 8 GB and more, 32-bit will be more and more of a problem - and amd64 is the only really serious way forward.
I don't know about OpenSolaris, does the 32-bit version handle >4GB of RAM like Linux does, using PAE or similar technices? Nevertheless, those kind of "solutions" will only be a kludge anyway and it only moves the limit some year forward (I think someone said 32 GB is the limit with PAE recently). So, I do think GNU/Solaris (as well as OpenSolaris) should/need to take amd64 into serious consideration when we are thinking what to emphasize. Best regards, Per Michael Casadevall wrote: > I don't have a problem with two separate ports. Like for people who > want Solaris based system for stability and ZFS, and a solaris based > one. A nice and practical upshot of this is the possibility of a > kopensolaris-amd64 port which has been a bit of an issue with the > current ON based system. The only question is if we ever became an > offical Ubuntu port, which one would/should be accepted upstream. If > we're legitimentally going to set up a second port, then I'll install > dak (not mini-dak), and configure it for this adventure (mini-dak is > great for single ports, not so much on multiple ones in my > experience). > > As a second benefit, its likely the base system will not require the > same amount of work to get buildds working, so you can probably > leverage the existing Debian autobuilder system, and get hardy built > much faster than we can since we need to work on improving the ON > base. > Michael > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
