[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: [discuss] SPARC and Illumos

[Lou Picciano]

Nice, Martin! 


(Speaking of excessive electricity bills, we have a handful of e450s we'd be _happy_ to ship to you. Pls send shipping address !! (sic) ) 


Lou Picciano 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig)" <martin at martux.org> 
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> 
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 7:49:44 PM 
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: [discuss] SPARC and Illumos 

---------- Forwarded message ---------- 
From: Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) <martin at martux.org> 
Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:43 AM 
Subject: Re: [discuss] SPARC and Illumos 
To: discuss at lists.illumos.org 


On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Brad Walker <bwalker at musings.com> wrote: 
> Recently there was some talk about SPARC compatibility. 
> 
> I would like to make sure that Illumos continues to have proper SPARC 
> compatibility and would like to volunteer to make this happen. 
> 
> I'm a long time Sun guy. When I lived in Silicon Valley, I had a 4/280 
> with a Kennedy tape drive and a couple of SMD drives. I just couldn't 
> keep dragging it around when I moved and so it is now been disposed 
> of. Plus, the power bill was getting pretty large. 
> 
> Currently I have an Ultra 10, Sunblade 1000, Sunblade 2500, and a 
> T2000. The Sunblade 2500 is my main home machine. When I need to use a 
> PC, I run SunPCI3. So far this has served me well over the years. The 
> T2000 is a new addition to the family and would like to retire the 
> Sunblade 2500 as I migrate over to the T2000. 
> 
> So I guess you can say, that I've got a few machines that we can use. 
> 
> But, my question is: How do I get started with Illumos? 
> 
> Ideas or suggestions would be most appreciated. 
> 
> -brad w. 





Hi all, 

this project is still in its mysterious darkroom phase, which ends on 
August 31st. 
>From then on it enters its o_p_e_n(indiana) phase. 
And everybody is happily welcome to contribute. 

I canceled my holidays and work on it 12 to 18 hours every weekday and weekend. 
And I'm now sure, that the promised release date of August (for the 
initial demo) can be met. 

At the current moment it would be contra-productive to work in a team, 
as the chatting, explaining and talking would prevent us from going 
ahead. 

Everybody has a different approach of working, but I hope you 
understand that this is mine. 
So please wait until August 31st, which is in 2 weeks, and therefore 
in just a few felt "moments". 
Time flies ....... 



And to keep you loyal SPARC fellows 2 weeks more patient, here is some 
of the daily dog food that I enjoy to eat myself: 


Build started Thu Aug 16 21:26:25 2012 
Distribution name: OpenIndiana 
Build Area dataset: magicspace/dc/20120816thu__0 
Build Area mount point: /magicspace/dc/20120816thu__0 
==== im-pop: Image area creation 
Initializing the IPS package image area: 
/magicspace/dc/20120816thu__0/build_data/pkg_image 
Setting preferred publisher: sparcoi 
Origin repository: http://192.168.111.200:10000 
Verifying the contents of the IPS repository 
Installing the designated packages 
Uninstalling the designated packages 
Setting post-install preferred publisher: sparcoi 
Origin repository: http://192.168.111.200:10000 
Stopping at im-mod: Image area modifications 
Build completed Thu Aug 16 23:11:27 2012 
Build is successful. 

... 


and 


$ uname -a 
SunOS 5.11 oi_151a_Initial_SPARC_OpenIndiana__with_cheers_from__Martin_Bochnig 
sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 


So, again: Thanks for your offer to help. 
Starting in two weeks a nice community project is available to you and us all. 



regards, 
%martin 

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