--- Alvaro Lopez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dragan Cvetkovic wrote: > > >> The idea was to use as much OpenSolaris > software as possible. > >> Solaris 10 included about 200 Free Software > programs. Debian > >> includes about 18,000. So now, try to imagine > something like > >> Solaris 10 with 18,000 packages available... > :-) I think somewhere down the path, we missed something. I'll try to say that someone may have been mentioning this concept: http://www.debian.org/ports/ If you look closely, there are a few paragraphs about taking kernels and building the Debian OS around those kernels (Debian GNU/OpenSolaris = Solaris kernel with Debian infrastructure (OS w/ported apps) built around it). I think the NetBSD people are doing something like this as well. So, we take out the Linux kernel and just compile the same Debian sources around the Solaris/OpenSolaris kernel. As for the Debian OS built around the Linux kernel: "Current Status Debian SPARC is officially released and known to be stable. Supported are Sun4c, Sun4m, and Sun4u machines (with a 32-bit userland). See the Install Manual for information on supported systems, hardware, and how to install Debian. About 64-bit SPARC support The Debian SPARC port, as mentioned above, does support the sun4u (Ultra) architecture. It uses a 64-bit kernel (compiled with a special version of the egcs compiler, called egcs64), but most of the applications run in 32-bit. This is also called a 32-bit userland. The Debian SPARC 64 (a.k.a., UltraLinux) porting effort is not currently conceived as a full porting effort like other ports. Rather, it is intended to be an add-on to the SPARC Port. In fact, there is really no point in having all applications running in 64-bit mode. Full 64-bit mode involves a significant overhead (memory and disk size) with often no benefit. Some applications really can benefit from being in 64-bit mode, and that is the purpose of this porting effort." So after reading all of this, you can just understand if we can port the Debian OS infrastructure around our Solaris/OpenSolaris kernel (AMD64/SPARCv9). Maybe that was the dream and somehow it got broken along the way.... ~Ken ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
