[oi-dev] [developer] how to fix support for system_locale in sysidcfg for non global zone installation

[Joerg Schilling]

DavidHalko <davidhalko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sparse zones were probably one of the most innovative features of Solaris 10, providing significant value, and one of out biggest issues with moving off of Solaris 10. 
>
> If OpenIndiana supported SPARC with Sparse Zones, managed service providers would have a serious time trying to justify not moving to OpenIndiana.
>
> There are at least 2 distro's based on SVR4 packaging right now with at least 2 SVR4 package provider. The issue with all Illumos-based distro's is no distro is providing security patches and enough backwards compatibility with Solaris 10.
>

Which distros do you refer to?

BTW: illumos does not support SVr4 packaging, SchilliX-ON does.

Jörg

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