Waaaay OT: OpenSolaris

Marco Benton marco at xssnet.com
Fri Jun 24 23:10:05 UTC 2005


if Solaris runs on wimptels then it should be able to run on Alpha with 
some work.  i just poked around the Solaris code so i dont really know.

but that would be a mean joke!

Davis Johnson wrote:

> Devil is right. I can't see Sun doing it. They have enough work of 
> their own to expend their limited resources on. But somebody with a 
> devilish streak might want to port it to the most anti-sun box they 
> can find. Kind of the same streak of playfulness that put Linux on an 
> X-box.
>
> Perhaps Solaris on Alpha would make a neat prank. Sounds like a lot of 
> work for a prank.
>
> Marco Benton wrote:
>
>> to play devils' advocate...  why would Sun need to?
>>
>
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