Submitted by “Sun Labs is pleased to announce the release to the OpenSolaris community of a long awaited update to the Solaris PowerPC code base. This source contribution provides the community with a functional Solaris PowerPC development environment on selected target platforms. This is a modest, but important step toward reaching the goal of developing the Solaris PowerPC port project to the point where it includes the latest source tree, provides a shell or single user prompt on the target platform, and has enhanced debugging, ie: KMDB.”
When I was playing with AIX 4.3 and 5L I had a couple of IBM 7043 32-bit workstations, it would have been cool to boot to OpenSolaris on one of them.
Sun has invited IBM to help make OpenSolaris a possibility on IBM’s OpenPower/iSeries machines; IBM instead chooses to be anti-social and refuse to be play nice with others.
I’ve been on the edge of buying an Open Desktop Workstation (http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php) for some time. And I’ve been meaning to try out OpenSolaris, but haven’t done that either. This would be a good time to dive into both, as soon as I hear that it runs on ODW.
I’d like to see a laptop version of the ODW, myself.
This is something I’ve been waiting for for a long time. Now my brother-in-law can run Solaris on his G4 like he’s always wanted.
An excellent example of Sun and the OpenSolaris community working together to support new architectures. I’d love to see Solaris on MIPS, Alpha and PA-RISC too. Might have to wait a bit though.
Netcr… That Solaris is officially a real genuine open source project? I mena it’s not as big as Linux; but then again neither is OpenBSD or DragonflyBSD and their is no knocking either one’s success.