[indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris on really old Sun hardware?

[Rand All]

I'm not quite sure where to post this, but oh well.

I have some really old Sun workstations, like a SparkStation 5 and an Ultra 1.  I understand that OpenSolaris requires SPARCv9, so I see why the SS5 will never work with OS.  But what about the Ultra 1?

At the moment, it doesn't meet the minimum RAM requirement, but it should be able to take up to 1G RAM.  Aside from the memory requirement, is there any compelling technical reason why OS won't run on the Ultra 1?

I think it would be really cool to get a current, modern version of Solaris running on this thing, rather than being limited to Solaris9.

I don't actually have any real need for this to work; I just think it might be a cool project to get it running.

Any insight?
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