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

[Sanjay Nadkarni]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 01/10/2007, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Martin Bochnig wrote:
>>     
>>> Okay, so to 1st setup sample/prototype on x86, then clone and adjust it
>>> in order to make it work on SPARC.
>>> Makes sense, one possible way of doing it, although I guess during Scott
>>> McNealy's time it would have been done exactly the other way around    ;-)
>>>       
>> Nothing is sacred here - if you look at Laca's desktop status, you'll see
>> the initial prototype won't even include Java, since JRE 1.6 and earlier
>> depend on Motif.
>>     
>
> We could always include IcedTea :)
>
> ...I assume that your mention of 1.6 implies that a newer version
> won't depend on Motif. I was under the impression that it did not on
> Linux anyway (used Gtk)...
>
>   
For a reason that I cannot fathom, Sun JRE for Linux links with Gtk.  
For Solaris the JRE links with Motif.  And yes,  there is a newer 
version of the JRE in the works that will remove Motif  linkage.

-Sanjay