[OpenIndiana-discuss] Desktop Painpoints

[Rolf M. Dietze]

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>> - sparc port of OI (why was sparc removed anyway?)
>
> Because we do not have enough developers, we have no equipment to  
> test with, old SPARC systems are way too slow (20-30 minutes of  
> illumos gate build versus 4-5 or more hours). In short, we should be  
> looking into the future (get ARM64 going) and not into the past.  
> ARM64 systems are very affordable now, SPARC? why one should get  
> rack server in their flat? It is great if there are some people  
> willing to play around with SPARC bits (I myself do like SPARC very  
> much), but …

so OI is focused only on desktop? Actually solaris based systems are
as far as I know, the only systems that support generic windows acl
from the zfs base via nfsv4 to the windows box. I do like to have an OI
zfs fileserver for windows desktops that supports real acls.

And for the sparc systems, there is nothing that stable as sparc
hardware. and obp on it is far more comfortable as this BIOS stuff.
one doen't realy have a text console on off the shelf BIOS boxes
Used sparc T2 boxes are damm cheap to get if one isn't just giving
them out nothing

>
> IPD19 to drop SPARC was published 4 years ago. *Perhaps* we can get  
> to actually drop the related code this year. If we are lucky.
focusing on exactly one architecture is great. And luckily OI was
never focused on itanium, cause that cpu is gone

/Rolf