<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>ok, more things to build.....<br><br>Interestingly SFW_160 contains Perl 5.10.<br><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Guido Berhoerster <gber@openindiana.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <oi-dev@openindiana.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 23 February, 2011 10:27:12<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [oi-dev] SPARC Text Installer<br></font><br>* MATTHEW WILBY <<a ymailto="mailto:matthewwilby@btinternet.com"
href="mailto:matthewwilby@btinternet.com">matthewwilby@btinternet.com</a>> [2011-02-23 10:06]:<br>> Good Morning,<br>> <br>> I've seen various people enquire about when we are going to release a SPARCiso.<br>> <br>> What I'd like to propose is that we work towards preparing a dev text installer, <br>> using Illumos and incorporating the the hard work done on g11n, and a recent <br>> build of SFW etc. I think most people are using SPARC based servers as opposed <br>> to workstations, so I suspect XNV/JDS can follow at a later date if there is <br>> interest.<br>> <br>> I believe it's important to get a *development* release out the door to allow <br>> people to test on the SPARC platform to provide feedback, generate additional <br>> 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 <br>> 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 <br>> 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 <br>> we need to make a decision about where we are going with the SPARC platform.....<br><br>Unfortunately you will still need to build "desktop"<br>consolidations such as JDS, which contain rather essential stuff<br>like Python.<br>-- <br>Guido Berhoerster<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>oi-dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org" href="mailto:oi-dev@openindiana.org">oi-dev@openindiana.org</a><br><a href="http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev" target="_blank">http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev</a><br></div></div>
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