[indiana-discuss] About Indinana and Gentoo model. (Important!!!!!)

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Daniel Griffith wrote:
> On 7/25/07, Girts Zeltins <girtszeltins at inbox.lv> wrote:
>> As we see Gentoo Hardware Requirements for Minimal CD is 486 processor and 64Mb RAM.
>> Such requirements must be for Solaris too!
>
> Gentoo's strength is that it is a source based install, so it's
> install CD is designed to boot on pretty well anything, allowing you
> to tinker with compiler settings for your HW - as OpenSolaris will be
> a binary distribution it simply can't cover that range of HW.

I'm not sure I agree. Alghouth OpenSolaris will be (and already is via
the SX distro) a binary distribution, it will also offer a distro
constructor, which I would think should facilitate covering old HW and
small RAM.

Also, speaking to Girts' original message, I would also think it'll
facilitate swapping this out:
http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/observations_on_packaging 
with a Gentoo installer too, if someone wanted to do that.

Eric