Darren, Fantastic idea, I know gman has voiced support for this idea too.
With the ARM port and this on top we'd have a fantastic platform reach!!! On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com>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. > > -- > Darren J Moffat > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090903/5ee7ab40/attachment.html>
