Sa?o Kiselkov <[email protected]> wrote: > I love SPARC and I've got a bunch of unused SPARC kit lying around too, > but unfortunately, for real-world performance, support, choice, ease of > development and pure economic sense, SPARC is a dead platform. Intel ate > SPARC's lunch, big time. With vendors like SuperMicro producing cheap, > fast and well supported hardware on which we can run Illumos, going to a > proprietary, expensive and single vendor-sourced solution (no matter how > sexy) simply isn't an option for most deployments. A shame, really, > considering the rich history of SPARC as a platform...
In a few weeks, the new SVr4 Pkg based Schillix will be ready and then building a Sparc based system should be feasable. We need help from someone who has a sparc and who knows how to create a bootable system for recent OpenSolaris. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
