I think people are missing the point here. This is just my $0.02, but the effort is akin to kernel.org. They are maintaining a fully-open base system in which others may build a distribution from. It is a lot of userland too, but its most akin to being kernel, libc, and what one expects in /sbin. They want to be upstream compatible. If a distribution wants to use their revision of ON as a _basis_ for their distribution, great. Efforts to support third party components will generally sit upon a full distribution, which is not being provided by IllumOS.
They mentioned that a "distribution" may be released, but its whole purpose is a bootstrap to help create a more complete full distribution. If you want a workstation/desktop class, one could for instance use StormOS or similar, which is a workstation/desktop edition above Nexenta Core by another third party. We are all talking about various building blocks here. One can't expect the end product from the group thats solely focused on engine parts. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Paul Gress <pgr...@optonline.net> wrote: > On 08/ 4/10 09:40 AM, Matthias Pfützner wrote: > > I wasn't refering to Illumos adding anything. I just mentioned, that nVIDIA > does write the driver for all versions of Solaris and that they are > therefore > the focal point of contact, just like you mentioned. I only asked you, as > you > are in good contact with nVIDIA and might have known anything about their > possible plans w.r.t. CUDA or OpenCL... ;-) But: I know: No Comment...;-) > > And: Yes, if there's business, they'll do it, that's for sure... > > > > Yes I believe that would be true if the OS was developed for Workstations. > The only commitment I see from Oracle is Servers and Databases. Would CUDA > help there? > > > > But, like Adrian Cockcroft did twitter last night: "I predict that #illumos > will be just as irrelevant as Solaris has been for the last few > years. Legacy." > > > > Illumos will hopefully move in a somewhat Desktop/Workstation direction. > But I don't see that for at least 3 months until they get the building > process streamlined, then they can focus on enhancing it. > > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
