Gnome shell already builds nicely on OpenSolaris and there are spec files in 
SFE 
which allow you do this.

Would be nice to get spec files for moblin once building into SFE aswell.

cheers

Matt

Alexander Eremin wrote:
> 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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