> > Not that the Mac mini isn't nifty, but I'm wondering > g to what extent > that is investing in a platform that's on its way > out. >
Valid questions, but I hope people aren't too quickly disregarding both a common platform and the large potential source of contributors to the opensolaris-powerpc project. Granted, the mac-mini and other mac powerpc platforms may be on their way out, but there may be way more of them out there and generally available already than the Pegasos platform. Consider also, that Linux has already been ported to the Mac Powerpc platform. This show that a great deal of technical information already exists, whether obtained from Apple or discovered. But I am not saying anything against the Pegasos platform. It may actually be the fastest way to get OpenSolaris running on Powerpc. But rather than approaching this from the point of view of supporting a one vendor over the other, why not say: "Mac ? Great ! We look forward to seeing motivated people with this hardware and the necessary expertise to join in. Until then, Pegasos is all we have going for us at the moment because thats what most (all?) of us core developers have." This message posted from opensolaris.org
