On 08-13-2018 6:08 AM, Peter Tribble wrote:
From the point of view of software such as qemu, divergences should be
slight
(there are going to be changes around packaging, shipped compilers,
but that's
true for different Linux distros in the same family). If it builds and
works on
Solaris, it'll build and work on one of the illumos distributions, and
vice versa.
(Although I note that's Solaris 10 mentioned above, which is now EOL, and
may be a little more problematic due to its age.)
I'm still using Solaris 10 because upgrading to Solaris 11 is a giant
pain, and they did away with the Java Desktop Environment GUI in 11. I
really like the JDE. However, I believe that Solaris 10 programs should
also work in Solaris 11. And it looks like Solaris 11 may be the end of
the line anyway.
You can certainly run illumos (such as OpenIndiana or Tribblix) in a
VM easily,
and freely. I can help with that.
That's for x86, of course. Building on a SPARC platform is a different
matter
entirely. (Although that's one of the reasons some of us are
interested in qemu
in the first place.)
That's exactly why I'm interested. I'd like to declare my independence
form Microsoft and Windows but I still have a few important Windows
programs that won't run on anything else. One can debate Solaris vx.
Linux, but I've made my choice.
- Michele
