On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:35:28AM -0700, TAKI, Yasushi/JPC wrote: > 2010-05-14 (金) の 08:55 -0600 に Jerry Jelinek > さんは書きました: > > On 05/14/10 07:58, TAKI, Yasushi/JPC wrote: > > > Hi,All. > > > > > > I heard this PSARC from my friend. > > > > > > http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2010/ > > > > > > "PSARC/2010/169 EOF lx brand" > > > > > > What does this mean? > > > > It means that we're going to remove the support > > for the lx brand from the next release of Solaris. > > The reasons are primarily because the brand never > > received any real adoption, it is outdated since it > > only emulates the 2.4 kernel, and there is a high > > cost associated with maintaining this. There are > > also better better alternatives now that weren't > > as widely available when the brand was developed. > > In particular, VirtualBox does support the 2.6 kernel > > and is freely available on OpenSolaris. > > > > > I have many lx branded zone. > > > > > > Can we use lxbrand, in future? > > > Or, lxbrand will be alternative of lx26 brand? > > Since the code is already open source, people outside > > of Oracle can continue to maintain it, if they are > > interested, or even enhance the code to properly support > > the 2.6 kernel. I would be happy to sponsor any > > bug fixes into the base ON code that are needed for > > the brand to work. If there is any interest in that, > > please let me know. > > > I am interested. > But I have no time, and I don't know lx-brand and thease stacks enough. > > What should I do ,next ? >
i don't mean to discourage you, but if you want to start maintaining the lx brand i recommend the first thing you do is free up a lot of time, since it will be a lot of work. ed _______________________________________________ brandz-discuss mailing list [email protected]
