On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 06:04:51PM +0200, Cyril Plisko wrote: > On 10/29/05, Dennis Clarke <blastwave at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 10/29/05, Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Guys and gals, > > > > > > Why do we have two mailing lists devoted to Solaris/PPC ? > > > I think that it gains us nothing, while creating confusion. > > > As far as I remember orignially powerpc-discuss was about > > > OpenSolaris/PPC port, while blastware-discuss was about > > > future BlastWare distribution which will target PPC as well > > > as x86 and SPARC. Was my understanding correct ? > > > Is it still the case ? > > > > > > > My understanding is that the Blastware discussions are about the > > Polaris port work ( PowerPC port ). Other distribution architectures > > have not been proposed yet unless you feel that Blastware is a > > tri-arch distro. A very adventurous idea. Like having the Windows NT > > 3.51 install CD which said PPC, ARM, Dec alpha, x86, Sparc and who > > knows what else on it. There was a copy of NT for Sparc but it never > > saw the light of day. I also don't think that a copy existed for ARM > > but who knows. In any case a single super distro is interesting but > > for the moment the only one that Blastware relates to is the PowerPC > > port. I think that the powerpc-discuss list at opensolaris.org was > > created afterwards. > > Dennis, > > it is by no means a question of which ML is first one, but my memory > cells tell me powerpc-discuss was created before blastware-discuss, > I have no mailarchive to authoritatively prove that. > Anyway keeping things consolidated feels like good thing.
I confirm that powerpc-discuss was created before the blastware-discuss list :) Friendly, Sven Luther
