>Don't expect things to work if you adopt to "the entire Debian way of >thinking".
Actually, I do. I don't care much about what the debian project "thinks" or "expects", and I doubt it's what you claim as: "As long as Debian compiles software on Linux-2.4 and expects the resulting binaries to work on Linux-2.2, the did not yet grok how to deal with evolvoing interfaces" I've been using Debian for a while, and I have never really encountered issues with kernels. Besides, it's besides, the point. The whole thing would not built against a Linux kernel but against Opensolaris. Entirely different beasts, but given that most common software which lives in debian builds and works fine for most other "free" unix likes (*BSD, HURD, Linux) and indeed on a whole slew of non free (Solaris (well, it used to be non free), Irix, HPUX, AIX) unices, and heck, even non unices at all (Windows, OpenVMS), I doubt it's really that much of a problem. Besides, kernel dependent components need to replaced *anyway*, so I fail to see how your point actually has any relevance at all. But that's just my view on things through pink glasses :-) I find that simplistic thinking ("I'm sure it can be done, and it can't be that hard") goes way further than getting stuck in negativism because there are some obstacles in the way. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org