> Ivan Wang wrote: > > You need a distro built upon it to actually benefit > from illumos, plus things like X Windows stack (FOX > gate?,) > > The FOX gate is obsolete and no longer maintained, > since the project to > replace all portions of the X consolidation with open > source completed. > The xnv-clone published by the X Consolidation > project is fully open source, > and is the exact source used in Nevada builds now. > > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+x-cons/ > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- > - alan.coopersm...@oracle.com > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window > ow System
Hmm...didn't FOX gate have Martin's ports of drivers for some of the legacy SPARC graphics hardware? Having a fair bit of same still in use, those are still a matter of concern for me. It'd be great to see them separable from the basic X server, if Oracle doesn't wish to maintain them, so that they could be an addition from a separate repository, rather than requiring an entire alternative X server. (it's understood that they don't support everything that the old Xsun did, but every little bit helps; for instance, while I'd lose my XVR-1000, I might still be able to use the Creator-3D or the XVR-100) The opened version of Xsun (which would be minus certain 3rd party functionality) might also let the rest of the old driver binaries work. Either or both of those are presumably for the community to deal with; but it would sure help if coexistence with (rather than replacement of) "standard" software were possible. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
