On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 13:13 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: > The full Moblin platform appears to require a Linux kernel and GNU/Linux > core OS. I don't see any real technical reason why we can't get the > Moblin desktop UI up and running on OpenSolaris. > > I'm not familiar with building even the current GNOME desktop on > OpenSolaris so I'm not sure where the best place to start with this > would be. It is based on the GNOME mobile project. > > I'd really like to see the Moblin "Desktop" up and running on > OpenSolaris - we can be just as good a Netbook OS as Linux x86 can be. > > It might worth picking a specific part of Moblin Core and focusing on > that first. > > Some useful links: > > http://moblin.org/ > http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview/architecture-overview > http://moblin.org/documentation/moblin-overview/moblin-core > > I've made a tiny tiny start by starting to build gssdp and gupnp. > > gssdp 0.6.4 built fine but gupnp needs 0.7 (which is git repo only it > seems). However gssdp needs get_ifaddrs() I found a copy of that from > Jim Carlson posted to networking-discuss@ last year. That got me gssdp > compiled. gupnp still needs some other dependencies like uuid. > Its is a small start but not much yet. > Also interesting to try make Gnome Shell (http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell) which writed with clutter and also looks cool: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Screenshots --
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