[indiana-discuss] Project Indiana is an initiative to create an OpenSolaris binary distro ...

[Glynn Foster]

David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>> A desire for a SPARC-version of Indiana doesn't exist, does it?
>> If so, why isn't anybody discussing, not to mention working, on it?
> 
> Absolutely, there will be a SPARC version of Indiana.  As Alan
> mentioned, this won't be available in the prototype or proof of concept
> that is planned for later this month but it's certainly our intent to
> have that available for SPARC by the spring time-frame.

And the reason for this is the time based release strategy. Sure, it's going to
ruffle a few feathers, but we definitely need an incremental plan for getting
where we want to be. The prototype essentially achieves this, and provides a
good base as David says for providing SPARC support in the not too distant future.


Glynn