[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sparc

[Nikola M.]

On 09/ 6/14 09:59 PM, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
> So, there is no special interest in SPARC or desktop left. My 
> impression is that people interested in it are getting fewer and fewer.
There IS interest in SPARC! OpenSXCE and Openindiana had releases and 
some people interested on working on OI on SPARC. Problem was having 
testing and development hardware
and Alasdair offered hosting SPARC machine in it's datacenter for free,
as long as someone pay for shipment from US (where there are cheap good 
T2 based machines to find) to UK.

And there is interest in Desktop. As a fact there is several more 
illumos distributions that include Desktop environment on illumos, 
beside Openindiana, (XStreamOS, Tribblix, OpenSXCE, other?)
(And I would not even start describing how differentiating distributions 
between
  'desktop' and 'server' is fruitless and not serving any use)

At least people talking about using their desktop on illumos distro, 
should use some illumos distro and send bug reports and their usage case 
problems and requirements, if any,
not just randomly popping up something sidewise from time to time, from 
other platforms.