On 5/9/06, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 08 May 2006 11:15 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:> I completely agree; this has been the best move SUN has done in its 20 or> so odd years of existence, it almost makes up for all the complete> whipe-outs past failed take overs have been (Cobal
On Sunday 07 May 2006 08:14 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> Good question, no body knows; wasn't it almost a year ago, we heard a big
> wig at SUN exclaim that IBM should work with SUN to port Solaris to POWER?
> then was much chest beating about porting OpenSolaris to PowerPC.
No, once again it seem
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> The underlying issue is this; imagine if Solaris was ported to POWER - throw
> the 'hardware support' out the window for a moment - who on earth would then
There is currently a project to port OpenSOlaris to the PPC. I'm not sure
how far they've got
> So my question is:
>
> Is Sun still interested in a OpenSolaris PPC port?
Good question, no body knows; wasn't it almost a year ago, we heard a big wig
at SUN exclaim that IBM should work with SUN to port Solaris to POWER? then
was much chest beating about porting OpenSolaris to PowerPC.
Raquel Velasco and Bill Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Joerg, Sun is still interested. Tom Riddle and his direct report,
> Roger Meike, are very interested in moving this ahead and so is
It seemed that Roger Meike was interested intil CeBIT.
Since then, we did not her from him even tho
Hi Joerg, Sun is still interested. Tom Riddle and his direct report,
Roger Meike, are very interested in moving this ahead and so is
Genesi. We are all waiting for the first code. We know Tom and a
small but active and dedicated Sun Labs team have been working on
this for months. Sven L
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I am not sure wht you like to achieve here...
> >
> >
>
> I'm trying to advocate expanding the meaning of "appliances",
> with respect to OpenSolaris, so that as a community or forum
> it has a better chance of matching up with more projects.
If we like
>I'm trying to advocate expanding the meaning of "appliances",
>with respect to OpenSolaris, so that as a community or forum
>it has a better chance of matching up with more projects.
The archive may reflect a first interest mainly in
home build server appliances; but we have not yet
gotten to t
Darren Reed wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(General discussions of cross-compilation is suitable for either of
opensolaris-code or tools-discuss; potential platforms probably should
start talking here; there are communities and projects associated with
Darren Reed wrote:
I'm trying to advocate expanding the meaning of "appliances",
with respect to OpenSolaris, so that as a community or forum
it has a better chance of matching up with more projects.
I think I'm with Darren in that my (perhaps mistaken) impression
of the charter of the Applianc
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(General discussions of cross-compilation is suitable for either of
opensolaris-code or tools-discuss; potential platforms probably should
start talking here; there are communities and projects associated with
installation and pa
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It occurred to me today that there is overlap but it isn't perhaps
a complete overlap as one might tend to believe.
The embedded community isn't just "appliances".
It is also many other things - for examples, cars.
Wouldn't it be
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It occurred to me today that there is overlap but it isn't perhaps
a complete overlap as one might tend to believe.
The embedded community isn't just "appliances".
It is also many other things - for examples, cars.
Wouldn't it be c
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Right. Some cars can have as many as 5 or more seperate computers.
Depends on what you understand by "computers". A big mercedes has
more than 30 "computers" only inside the cabin (not countiong the
dashboard).
Jörg
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Artem Kachitchkine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't it be cool if the OS behind your car's electronics was
> > Solaris
>
> That would be terrible. I'd rather prefer that the software in my car
> was simple enough for its correctness to be formally provable. As well
> as testable with 10
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It occurred to me today that there is overlap but it isn't perhaps
> a complete overlap as one might tend to believe.
>
> The embedded community isn't just "appliances".
> It is also many other things - for examples, cars.
>
> Wouldn't it be cool if the OS
Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (General discussions of cross-compilation is suitable for either of
> > opensolaris-code or tools-discuss; potential platforms probably should
> > start talking here; there are communities and projects associated with
> > installation and packaging al
Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
Using a general purpose OS to drive things like the display you use
for GPS based navigation or entertainment makes good sense.
So what advantage does Solaris offer then? Does it have good
multimedia capabilities? Does it reduce costs and time to market for
GPS s
Using a general purpose OS to drive things like the display you use for
GPS based navigation or entertainment makes good sense.
So what advantage does Solaris offer then? Does it have good multimedia
capabilities? Does it reduce costs and time to market for GPS software
vendors, who've been
Artem Kachitchkine wrote:
Wouldn't it be cool if the OS behind your car's electronics was
Solaris
That would be terrible. I'd rather prefer that the software in my car
was simple enough for its correctness to be formally provable. As well
as testable with 100% coverage through a procedure
Wouldn't it be cool if the OS behind your car's electronics was
Solaris
That would be terrible. I'd rather prefer that the software in my car
was simple enough for its correctness to be formally provable. As well
as testable with 100% coverage through a procedure based on something
simple s
Stephen Hahn wrote:
* Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-28 16:03]:
Hi,
To bring together the various groups of people who are interested in
talking about Solaris for embedded use, I'd like to propose creating a
new discussion forum, embedded-discuss.
The purpose of this forum would
Stephen Hahn wrote:
* Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-28 16:03]:
Hi,
To bring together the various groups of people who are interested in
talking about Solaris for embedded use, I'd like to propose creating a
new discussion forum, embedded-discuss.
The purpose of this forum would
* Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-28 16:03]:
> Hi,
>
> To bring together the various groups of people who are interested in
> talking about Solaris for embedded use, I'd like to propose creating a
> new discussion forum, embedded-discuss.
>
> The purpose of this forum would be to discuss
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