Hi Jerry, that would be our job...:-) Thanks to William for answering too. Allow us expound on the subject....
As mentioned, information about the ODW, that is an Open Desktop Workstation, can be found here: http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php There is even a special version we ship to support the good folks at Blastwave/Blastware who are pushing ahead with Polaris. https://www.pegasosppc.com/special_odw.php?partner=blastware While not quite as exciting as Solaris on Power or Polaris, you can actually obtain Java support officially from Sun (which is just great): http://java.sun.com/j2se/embedded/ This was built and certified on an Open Desktop Workstation and includes the HotSpot JVM. That would just be 32bit Linux for now, but it is a solid indication of the opportunity to come. For the latest and greatest on Polaris here is the space to watch: http://polaris.blastwave.org/ We are looking forward to a number of interesting possibilities with new hardware that we have developed/are developing. You will note that there are many Polaris/Blastware Community members involved in the EFIKA Developer Program: http://projects.ppczone.org/projects.php Please feel free to contact us directly. We willingly provide hardware to all highly motivated Blastwave/Blastware members that are interested in working on Polaris. Also of note: the extremely useful work going on here advances all architectures targeted by Solaris: http://svn.blastwave.org/ We are pleased to be part of that too. R&B On Apr 11, 2006, at 12:15 AM, sunlist wrote: > Hello Noah, > > Thank you for your reply. > > Can you tell me what "odw" is? > > Jerry Kemp > > Noah yan wrote: >> On 4/10/06, Jerry K <sun at oryx.cc> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I hope that I am asking this question in the right place. I have >>> followed >>> this >>> list for a few months, and hardware wise, when I see hardware >>> discussed, >>> most of >>> the discussion base that I see is concerning the Pegasos >>> workstation. >>> >>> I know that from the community home page: >>> >>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/power_pc/ >>> >>> that Apple and IBM hardware is mentioned in the design goals. >>> >>> Is it realistic to think that sometime in the near future (next >>> 12 to 18 >>> months) >>> that a person might be able to test/evaluate/work with >>> OpenSolaris on an >>> Apple >>> PowerBook G4, or is most work and progress being pushed towards >>> other >>> systems? >> Thanks for your interest. I currenly use a PowerMac G4 for this >> porting, and >> will try my best to have the updated work tested on it in the >> progress. >> Hopefully the polaris will boot up on both odw and apple machine >> together. >> But odw is the target machine first. >> Noah >> TIA for any comments, >>> Jerry Kemp >>> _______________________________________________ >>> powerpc-discuss mailing list >>> powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org
