> > --- On Sat, 3/28/09, UNIX admin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: UNIX admin <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris-based CD/DVD Distributions as of >> March 26, 2009 >> To: [email protected] >> Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 5:16 AM >> > yes: Tom Riddle and Brian (and >> Guy) are resuming >> > work. >> >> That's really good news! >> >> > But whatever they do: In any case it is not going to >> > be a LiveCD/DVD >> > distro very soon. So at least the subject is not >> > entirely correct. >> >> Yes, that's what bothers me. If there is no downloadable, >> bootable image, how can a pile of prototype code be >> considered a distribution? > > > Distribution of code - whether binary or source code - on CD/DVD/USB Flash > Drive or other media distribution is what I considered. Even project > distributions 'in-progress' is what I considered. > > The ppc-dev team has the source code available through svn online (i.e. > http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/ppc-dev/ppc-dev/) > and binary build systems (vespa2) through ssh access. Contact Tom Riddle > for more info. > > The binary code I reviewed with Tom Riddle and Brian Horn a 1-2 years ago > was a bootable version on the Genesi Pegasos II ODW (or EFIKA) with GRUB. > Tom showed that it worked to the command line at that time. Some of the > other people in the group have bootable binaries as well (I have an older > snapshot). > > Note: Here I'll note that this is more of a money and resource issue for > the team - not a technological one. > > The hardware that the distro was originally based on is now defunct, but > new PPC hardware is available through other companies. >
Ken, we still have vesta ( PPC host ) in the Blastwave farm and other PPC/Embedded gear sitting around still. We just have not done anything with it in a while. -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
