This is one old thread I would like to reactivate since I have some not so good news, and it is up to us if we'll turn these to good ones.
I have been attending IDF @ SF, Moscone West. I was there primary by business I had to do but I also attended some technical sessions and saw majority of Intel Showcase. While I have so much things to share with community I would like to concentrate only to moblin. I approached lot of developers asking them about moblin, carefully listening them sometimes asking very easy question in order to listen what they will answer. As a result I got these conclusions. Intel is dedicated to moblin and Atom processor. They sponsor much of moblin community and have plans to expand this sponsorship. Moblin is some kind of platform they plan to put in any embedded system including TVs and set-top boxes. And they are strictly dedicated to Linux kernel. All other middle-ware are developed from their developers or integrated from open source community (smaller amount, i.e WebKit). I asked them are they willing to change Linux kernel for SunOS. Answer I got is very strong *no*. Main reason is because huge amount of middle-ware software is not ported yet to SunOS and they do not have time to wait to see it happen. Only one *maybe* I got from one developer who told me 'if Sun port all middle-ware of our interest maybe it could happen'. 'We just listening demands of our hardware customers', she added. I hope that this few paragraphs would be useful to community. By the way, I had very hard discussion during Q&A sessions about X86 architecture, trying to see why they do not make another architecture and forget about microcode. During that sessions I pointed to SPARC CPUs and that they could be fully observed while that is not a case with X86 CPUs because of microcode they rely upon. The only thing that Intel does very well is research in order to stay on Moore's Law. All other stuffs are leading to destruction of art of computer design and programming. Uros ----------------------------------------------- "Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police." - Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) > Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:13:01 +0100 > From: Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM > To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: [desktop-discuss] Moblin desktop UI on OpenSolaris > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/events.aspx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20091001/fdf6af41/attachment.html>
