[osol-mktg] RE: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?

[Kaiwai Gardiner]

Hi,

You can run a text installer, which is similar to the old Windows NT/2000/XP
setup proceedure; which isn't too bad.

The bigger problem is how much of the hardware is proprietary and
unsupported on either Linux or some other operating system - with that being
said, I assume its got all the Intel goodies; HD Audio, Integrated Video,
Intel Pro/Wirelss combo - basically its a walking billboard for Intel
technology.

As for Sun; depends on how much money they would need to spend; 99% of the
hardware is probably supported out there via *BSD licenced drivers, it would
be a matter of porting it over, then stablising a build of OpenSolaris to
base it on, then ontop of that - everyones favourite, testing.

At the end of it, I think the question that needs to be answered is whether
the grand pissing competition really worth the money that will need to be
outlayed for it to happen - maybe Sun can class it as a 'charitable
donation' and plonk some of the costs against tax - I'm unsure about the US
tax system; but assuming that if atleast one recognised charity asks for
'Solaris on the laptop' Sun might be able to write it off.

Mathew

On 3/24/07, Stewart, David C <david.c.stewart at intel.com> wrote:
>
> I can ask around and see if there is an opportunity here for Solaris as
> well.  Believe the classmate PC has been going on long before the Sun-Intel
> alliance.
>
> One thing I noticed is that the HW platform described only has 256MB of
> memory.  When I tried to install an OpenSolaris build the other day on a
> machine with 512MB, the install failed due to my machine not having enough
> memory - wanted 796MB or some such.
>
> Is this just a packaging issue?  Can Solaris run on "small" machines?  Are
> there implementations which run on really tiny things like cell phones and
> the like?
>
> Dave
>
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> Subject: [osol-discuss] Solaris on Intel's Classmate PC?
>
> Hi,
>
> before it is too late and children will be infiltrated by MS
> software anywhere on the world, we need Solaris in the
> Intel competitive HW made against the One Laptop per Child
> initative.
>
>
> http://www.classmatepc.com/classmatepc-system-hardware.html
>
>
> Jörg
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