[OpenIndiana-discuss] Tribblix Milestone 1

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Francois Dion wrote:
>
> http://solarisdesktop.blogspot.com/2012/11/tribblix.html
>
> Running on 512MB of RAM btw. The reason this is interesting to me is
> that the Raspberry Pi has now been shipping with 512MB of RAM, there
> was an OpenSolaris port to ARM processors and the Pi has a stable
> hardware list. 1 video and sound driver needed. 1 usb/ethernet
> chipset.

AMD has announced that within two years they will have an "Opteron" 
based on the ARM architecture.  This will be in addition to continuing 
evolution of x86-64.  There will be serious ARM hardware available 
suitable for running Illumos-based systems.  There will be ARM64 
hardware available (from other than AMD) for deployment within the 
next 5 months.

Hopefully some company will decide to add ARM support for Illumos.

Bob
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