thus UNIX admin spake:
I don't know. Why not? Furthermore, there's already the Polaris
project...
...Which hasn't gone anywhere after Genesi killed the ODW ("open
desktop workstation"),
I know; on the other hand, this was a typical straw fire like all the
others in the Amiga universe and surrounding galaxies. I don't want to
make things worse, but in the end there was not a single project during
the last decade that ended up successfully; they had super-glamourous PR
teams, and -- maybe -- one geek with a soldering iron. Forget it. This
is like being a 14 year old (thinking of myself) being 'in love' with
his/her Power Mac, SPARCstation or whatever in the 90s. Well, I grew up ;)
the PS3 as the target wasn't accepted, and
finally it was determined that the POWER hardware, the next logical
target, was way too expensive. Which it is.
Err, a very good friend of mine and I started to fork and port NetBSD to
Power back in 2005 in order to build a whole new OS with an Exokernel
and BSD userland. Even back then it was *no* problem to get a nice
Power3 machine off eBay (or somewhere else). Perfect for developing!
Accidentally, I checked prices for Power4+ workstations (Model 275) some
hours ago, you can get the single CPU 1GHz model for about a hundred
bucks (I'm talking of US$; EUR is about 70 - 80). Granted, those
machines have scratches and missing doors, but still are good work horses.
I don't see why one should see PS3 as tier 1 target; it'd be nice to
have Cell supported, but that's no necessity.
Some work has been done on porting OpenSolaris to EFIKA, but as far
as I know, that didn't get very far. Porting is a serious business,
and the project is hurting from lack of human resources; don't expect
to see any Polaris ISO images available for download any time soon.
I don't expect it, at least as long as they use non-existent hardware as
their target. C'mon...
PS3 is the target which is abundant enough and makes the most sense
to port to, after all, would wouldn't want to be able to run Sun
cluster on a pile of PS3s, or use a PS3 workstation but be able to
run a game after a long day of work, but there isn't enough PS3 HW
know-how to go around for that. At least not for OpenSolaris, at
least not right now.
It's a nice tier 2 target.
A shame, really. What a pity.
I surely don't and wouldn't do so, I'm a BSD addict; however,
during the last years I became much less political in this regard,
so... use the perfect fitting tool. Sometimes this even may be
GNU/Linux.
I'll tell you one thing: if any of the BSDs had any clustering
solution akin to Sun or Veritas cluster, And the Solaris became
irrelevant, I'd start using BSD immediately, just so I didn't have to
end up on GNU/Linux!
:)
Best,
Timo
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