Sheer speculation. Just thought that something potentially so explosive (before Google's Android came out) yet Sun was not paying any attention, the reason must be that the JVM used in the installer was a seriously handicapped version.
Many of my then-clients would have been very interested (which include VIA and its sister company HTC, which now makes the Android phones). But in this internet age, five years is more like five generations. >Is there any particular reason you thought it would be something other than >the standard JVM? Scott -- Scott Rotondo Senior Principal Engineer, Solaris Core OS Engineering President, Trusted Computing Group Phone: +1 650 786 6309 (Internal x86309) On Jun 20, 2010, at 12:36 PM, "W. Wayne Liauh" <wp at HawaiiLinux dot org> wrote: > > During the installation of Solaris Express, shortly after the kernel is > loaded, a Java virtual machine will appear which will take over the > installation process. I was wondering whether this is a special version of > JVM, and if so, how "useful" (capability-wise) it is? where can I find any > info? More to the point, do you think it may be possible to build a Open > Solaris distro based on this kernel+JVM combo? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
