> Yes, it's all about the boot architecture. SPARC > will be doing > something similar in the not-too-distant future.
So, the plans are to make the SPARC version need more memory as well? Sorry, but this seems a step backwards to me. > It's possible we can reduce it, but it requires some actual engineering, > and for us it hasn't been high enough priority. Well, perhaps the OS community can help with this. If I was a programmer, I'd be seriously inclined to help. :-/ > One thing that will run > on less memory right now, at least theoretically since I don't have any > convenient boxes with less than 1 GB to try it on, is the Live DVD > prototype we have been working on which is over on the Live Media > project[1]. We're going to try to put some sort of minimal installer on > it soon; That sound like a positive move. > meantime you can try out the Belenix version which is similar > and already does have an install. It ain't Solaris, but it is > OpenSolaris, and I think it's a dandy way to try out a lot of things. I'm not so much interested in "trying out" things. I have my own systems for that. I'm building a (free) system for someone else that I can support. As for others (parts of our target audience), they need versions of OS that they can load on small-memory systems. If Belenix (as an example) can install on a small-memory system, why can't the main OS tree go the same route? Rainer This message posted from opensolaris.org
