>Richard L. Hamilton: >In the long run, this might be quite feasible, and the CDDL might be more >attractive >for commercial applications than GPL . . . <snip>
>But it seems to me that there are three areas where Linux is 'way ahead for >this sort of >thing, not to mention that it's already there: >* ports: Linux has been ported to just about every CPU big enough to run it. >* running on very small systems, in a minimal configuration >* widespread driver development expertise >A lightweight graphics environment as an alternative to X11 would also be >important, >I think. Presumably something along those lines already exists, and a port of >that >wouldn't be too difficult. ISTR something called MGR, but haven't heard of >anything >new with it in a long time. >All in all, it's possible, but it would be a lot of work. One would have to >have a >very strong case that it would definitely be worth the additional work and >risk to port >OpenSolaris to the platform of interest rather than Linux. Thanks a whole bunch for sharing your thoughts. Wish I had a little bit more background on the Solaris kernel (instead of being absolutely clueless). Because we will be talking about a very narrowly defined set of (mostly proprietary) hardware, many of the advantages of Linux are probably neutralized (except perhaps the "expertise" part). In a sense, as you pointed out, OpenSolaris should have an overriding advantage, because it is based on the CDDL. But one of the determining issues, again as you indicated, seems to be how minimal an OpenSolaris system can be configured to be. This is something I don't have any clue about. Thanks again for the reply. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
