On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Martin Schaffstall wrote:

> I suggest to make /bin/ksh ksh93 from the beginning
that you don't
> have to deal with any backwards compatibility fuzz
later

I advocate against that; individual distros are free
to do what want,
of course, but making gratuitous incompatible changes
"just because"
sounds like the sort of thing our penguin loving
friends over at
kernel.org would go for.  Having the PPC port being
unnecessarily
different to SPARC and x86 will lead to more
fragmentation than we
want, I would think.

-- 
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

--------------------------

True. You'd want to at least stick close to the source
trees and diff anything needed to port the source to
PowerPC/POWER architectures. 

I'd thought of the concept in which the Power/PowerPC
port was very identical to the SXCR distribution -
just focused on POWER/PowerPC based hardware. Genesi
has servers and workstation hardware which allowed us
this possibility. 

I'd like to propose the PowerPC/POWER SXCR distro
based on the work from Sun Labs. I have a KMDB PowerPC
debugger I'd like to propose for further development
as well.

Ken Mays
EarthLink, Inc.


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