Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-19 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Nik Masloff spake: Kill OpenSolaris, force customers to migrate to LinUX. Can't kill something that's open source. If IBM tries to pull any stupid stuff, I'm forking the OpenSolaris code immediately, no ifs, buts, or maybes. I will have no mercy. Let`s hope that this will not

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-19 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Martin Bochnig spake: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.net wrote: (fork of) OpenSolaris could take this place and more. There were OpenSolaris, now it`s FreeSolaris :) But let`s hope this will not happen. Everything IBM touches is turned to gold

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-19 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus UNIX admin spake: I don't know. Why not? Furthermore, there's already the Polaris project... ...Which hasn't gone anywhere after Genesi killed the ODW (open desktop workstation), I know; on the other hand, this was a typical straw fire like all the others in the Amiga universe and

Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

2009-03-19 Thread Timo Schoeler
I don't see why one should see PS3 as tier 1 target; For a very simple reason: they are cheap and abundant, and can be had new, instead of being forced to scavenge off of ebay (and I should know, about 50% of my private server park is hardware scavanged boots to some kind of a prompt off of

Re: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from

2008-12-31 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Alan Coopersmith spake: Timo Schoeler wrote: thus Alan Coopersmith spake: Octave Orgeron wrote: Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end. Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago - there's no more pushing to that point to do

Re: [osol-discuss] *LOL* : - Xorg on SPARC will not work with any driver except the included wsfb (which only works on m64 graphics in 8-bit mode) unless you get updated matching driver packages from

2008-12-29 Thread Timo Schoeler
thus Alan Coopersmith spake: Octave Orgeron wrote: Agreed.. this is definitely pushing the SPARC workstation market to an end. Sun already ended sales of SPARC workstations several months ago - there's no more pushing to that point to do. IBM sells POWER-based workstations. I like