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[Jerry Kemp]

Martin's distro, unfortunately, is the only one willing to support 
Sparc, so he is going to pull a good sized chunk of the community based 
on that alone.

Jerry


On 06/ 6/13 08:40 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:

>
> Hello everybody,
> It is no secret that Solaris users form a very small minority. What
> is really disappointing is the fact that we have a number of distros
> that even fewer people use. To me it would be a good idea to join
> forces to improve the kernel as well as the user-land. There is no
> USB3 support and adding it to Solaris is not as "trivial" it is for
> other systems :-( Also, there is no Kernel Mode Setting which means
> that the open source video drivers cannot be used. In addition,
> we need OpenOffice/LibreOffice and some other tools like gimp
> 2.8.0, etc. Thus, instead of spending time and energy on building
> different distros, let's "endorse" 2-3 distros and concentrate on
> the development of the kernel. After all, the various linux distros
> are possible because some people work really hard on improving
> the kernel.
>
> A.S.
>
>
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> Apostolos Syropoulos
> Xanthi, Greece
>