On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Alex Viskovatoff <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi all, > > Although the lx brand is still present in the last binary release of > OpenSolaris, snv_134, as one sees in the following thread, Oracle > decided to cancel it: > > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=129326&tstart=0 > > I haven't looked at the ON code base, but my guess is that support for > the lx brand is not present in the code base that IllumOS has forked > from. > > Have there been any thoughts regarding whether Illumos should keep the > lx brand alive? I can understand why Oracle killed it: it is not > something that a large enterprise would use, and kernel developers (at > least those working on the Zones infrastructure) must take account of > the lx brand even if they are not concerned with it directly, which > creates a large code maintenance issue. > > Still, I find the lx brand very useful, since it allows one to run > applications that have not been ported to OpenSolaris yet. Sun itself > never bothered to update the lx brand to emulate the 2.6 Linux kernel, > but an outside developer did this, although not all Linux system calls > have been implemented, and some facilities, such as sound and NFS, do > not work. > > Since the Linux 2.6 implementation of the lx Brand was never finished, > clearly the lx brand is not appropriate for an operating system intended > for enterprise-class production systems. But I think it can be > appropriate for an open source OS. I'm not a kernel developer, so I > don't have a very good idea of what's involved, nor could I develop and > maintain the lx brand myself. But if Illumos takes off, someone may > become inclined to put more work into the lx brand. So my concern at > this point is whether it might be possible for Illumos not to shut the > door entirely on the lx brand. > +1.000.000 > > Alex > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss > -- HeCSa
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