[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hi Al: OpenSXCE upload completed 1 minute ago

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-01-31 19:59, Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>>> They are two different animals.  Below is what he posted to this
>>> list on December 17.  I'm trying to save him some trouble here,
>>> since he's not living in very good conditions.
>
>> I hadn't originally noticed this extensive list, though I was aware that
>> he was working on something. Big Kudos to Martin for this work, it
>> appears to have been a herculean effort, and to think that he did this
>> alone while living on a shoestring budget just boggles the mind.
>
> But with that in mind, wouldn't it be even more appropriate to align the effort with OpenIndiana to form its Sparc edition? That would free Martin from having to spend time on dist packaging while bringing OpenIndiana closer to providing one-stop distribution. I mean, it is absolutely his project and he can do whatever he pleases, but wouldn't that help him, too?

I believe, Martin's work is more aligned with the large installed base
of Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris SXCE systems, ultimately providing them
with a relatively straightforward upgrade path to updated kernel and
software. This is different from OpenIndiana or Solaris 11, migration
to which from an SVR4-based system is far from a simple upgrade, just
a bit better than migration to a different OS than Solaris altogether.

However, given that we didn't have OI-SPARC and Martin's work based on
illumos now provides one, I hope that the opensource collaboration can
use his work and make OI-SPARC. Perhaps, the SVR4 and IPS releases can
ultimately be built from the same source with just a different switch
passed to the build script, so that adepts of the two packaging systems
can all have the modern OS updated regularly...

And I do really hope that despite the concerns raised by Garrett (quite
valid, indeed) the illumos-related projects would soon have enough of
the committed onlined resources to build and test the SPARC releases.
And, perhaps, that there would also be modern hardware teamed with the
illumos-based efforts. After all, SPARC is a rare non-proprietary CPU
architecture which anyone is allowed to (and some do) implement.

//Jim