On 8/16/05, Noah Yan <noah.yan at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am interested in porting Solaris to powerpc, and starting looking at the > loading code of solaris for powerpc.
Right now the focus is on the GRUB boot loader. > > In genunix repos, does any coding work really happen? Not yet. Soon. :-) > Why use a new name polaris, is it a new OS branched out from opensolaris? If > it is just opensolaris for powerpc port, why not just use the original name? It was a good idea at the time and everyone involved really liked it. So its a name, like Fedora or zoot or any other distro code name. We all know that its OpenSolaris. Dennis Clarke Director and Admin for blastwave.org dclarke at blastwave.org
