<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body>Hello <br>
I also have a SPARC maschine at home (an old SUN Netra T1) and could do testing and provide feedback. <br>
Regards <br>
Daniel <br>
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Skickat från min Android-telefon med K-9 E-post. Ursäkta min fåordighet.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">MATTHEW WILBY <matthewwilby@btinternet.com> skrev:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Good Morning,<br><br>I've seen various people enquire about when we are going to release a SPARC iso.<br><br>What I'd like to propose is that we work towards preparing a dev text installer, using Illumos and incorporating the the hard work done on g11n, and a recent build of SFW etc. I think most people are using SPARC based servers as opposed to workstations, so I suspect XNV/JDS can follow at a later date if there is interest. <br><br>I believe it's important to get a *development* <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>release out the door to allow people to test on the SPARC platform to provide feedback, generate additional interest and give people an alternative to Oracle tax.<br><br>I'm not suggesting this should be a stable release. I'm not sure what consolidation versions should be
used.<br><br>As I commented on IRC last night I'm willing to put in the effort to help get this done, but will need some guidance along the way.<br><br>Bad idea or not, I'm hoping that this will get a conversation going as I believe we need to make a decision about where we are going with the SPARC platform.....<br><br>:-) <br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Matt (Wilbs)<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br></div> </div></blockquote></div></body></html>