[advocacy-discuss] "What is OpenSolaris" page

[Alan Coopersmith]

Mads Toftum wrote:
> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 01:47:38PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> The engineering team pretty much agrees that SPARC support is a feature
>> on the to do list that hasn't been finished yet, not something intentionally
>> omitted.
>>
> Putting it so low on the list that it couldn't even make the first
> release does say a lot about the priorities. not very impressive imho.

Yep, the priority was to get something out that the widest number of people
could use - many many many many more people have x86 boxes available than
sparc, especially spare ones that they could use to try out a new OS build.
There were also dependencies on other projects for SPARC that simply
weren't done by the deadline imposed (zfs boot, Xorg graphics drivers,
etc.) - those are being worked on.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering