Congratulations to the entire Solaris team for the work which went into this
release. I sat in a review today of Intel's Solaris engineering program,
presented by Bob Kasten. Very impressive accomplishment, gang!
Dave
Formerly Intel Dave
-Original Message-
From: Glynn Foster
In case you are interested.
I recently sat in on a webcast with Sun talking about some of our work
optimizing OpenSolaris on Xeon. If you're curious about some of the
work we're doing, it's nice because I talk a little about the upcoming
Nehalem processor family and our work there.
From: Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why are there no 16 socket (or more) x64 (Xeon or Opteron) servers on
the
market?
1. is there no demand?
I had the chance today to pose this question to Intel's Lead
Strategist in the Digital Enterprise Group. His response was something
like this:
The
Well, we're trying. :-)
Sun has a great crew in Beijing working on the graphics drivers, and we
have a guy named Kan working with them who is relatively new on the
project. I don't believe we are taking the binary blob approach on
graphics because Intel graphics specs have been open for some
Dave - thanks for the feedback, will send to the appropriate engineer.
From: Dr. David Kirkby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 6:27 AM
Thank you Shawn. One of the things my laptop lacks on the Intel chip
set is
any way to adjust the brightness level of the laptop's
Amen to that. Add Hierarchical Storage
I thought it ironic that the Linux world is spending this decade adding
the business hardening that we put into Unix in the late 80s and early
90s.
From: Brandorr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also another interesting trend in Enterprise IT is that most of the
I can ask around and see if there is an opportunity here for Solaris as well.
Believe the classmate PC has been going on long before the Sun-Intel alliance.
One thing I noticed is that the HW platform described only has 256MB of memory.
When I tried to install an OpenSolaris build the other
All - as discussed, we have enabled anonymous pull on the project, and
we're definitely open to community contributions to the project.
I put some ideas on the project home page under Development
Opportunities of things which would be useful, such as power
management, drivers, library and kernel
