[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

If sufficient documentation is available, I'd be willing to offer the two
SPARC systems I have as build systems, once I get working again. I'd have
to hang on to them, though...

I have a Sun Blade 2500 Red, as well as a Sun Fire V125, unfortunately they
are both only UltraSPARC III powered, would that be a show-stopper?

I'm not a developer, more of a system administrator that likes to dabble,
and I've been using Solaris since version 8, and have used SPARCstation 4s
as well as a Sun Ultra 5 in the past.

Hopefully I can help in some way.


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- Alex Smith
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On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:

> Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss писал 16.09.2014 23:24:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am not really following every detail of the OpenSXCE debate but I would
>> like to say that we are definitely a very small community and we cannot
>> afford to lose anyone who can contribute to the development of the
>> operating
>> system and the desktop environment. In addition, since we are a really
>> small
>> community it makes no sense to have many different distributions. This
>> fragments the community and so we lose energy that could be used to
>>
>> provide drivers etc. For example, we still do not have a driver for
>> USB3 devices, we cannot use the ATI drivers since kernel mode setting
>> is not there, yet... And instead of fighting about nonsense, we should
>> create at least two groups to port and maintain OpenOffice (it works
>> partially)
>>
>> andChrome and why not Firefox (we cannot rely on Oracle to compile it with
>> their outdated compiler!).
>>
>>
> Hello.
> Agree for every point.
>
> On collaboration with OpenSXCE developers.
> We (OI /hipster) currently don't support SPARC in any way.
> We disagree with OpenSXCE on package manager and build systems.
> I appreciate Martin's work, I understand that it requires a lot of work,
> time
> and dedication, but I don't see an easy way to collaborate between OI
> /hipster
> and OpenSXCE. IIRC, the only man who contributed SPARC-related patches to
> oi-userland
> was David Mackay. And to support SPARC port we need
> 1) some volunteer to do it,
> 2) some build systems.
> I've stated several times, that I personally don't see any interest in
> supporting SPARC.
> However, if someone interested in this, we will gladly appreciate
> SPARC-related changes to oi-userland.
>
> Other sort of collaboration can consist in exchanging patches for some
> software, as we
> collaborate with other parties building software for illumos and Solaris.
> This is also productive and interesting to us. But as
> we haven't seen code drops from OpenSXCE, it's impossible now.
> Note: I mean no offence, just state the current state.
>
> On Firefox - we have gcc-compiled firefox port. However, even having
> Oracle firefox
> patches from solaris-desktop-spec-files, it takes too much time to add gcc
> support and build new
> FF releases. Currently we have FF 24 in oi-userland (gcc-compiled).
> ---
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>
>
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