* Jeff Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-14 05:34]: > A number of engineers on the Data Management Group are working on a > port of Solaris to the zSeries mainframe servers and we'd like to > establish a community supporting and promoting a port. The initial > efforts of this port would allow the Solaris operating system to > execute as a guest on a zSeries Virtual Machine facility and the > Hercules mainframe emulator, http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/. If > there was sufficient justification for the effort the port would then > address running Solaris in a native partition. > > Through this community we'd build a network of developers focused on > effecting this port. > > We see this port as an opportunity to make Solaris the Internet > interface to the large stores of mainframe centric data frequently > being accessed by Linux today. We feel that Solaris has a number of > attributes that will provide significant benefits over the Linux > mainframe implementation. > > >From prior posts on the general discussion list there is an interest > >within the community for porting Solaris to the mainframe. It is > >expected that the level of participation will be somewhat focused to > >as limited group of developers due to lack of publicly available > >facilities on which to develop the port. However, the Hercules > >emulator will allow anyone with an interest to participate. > > Thoughts, suggestions, and questions are welcome.
This proposal should almost certainly be a project, and not a community. (Many of the current communities are grandfathered from the pilot program, and should not be used as models for subsequent proposals.) If you wish to have a project, just say so, and have someone (from the team) second the proposal. - Stephen -- Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blogs.sun.com/sch/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
