[illumos-Discuss] Fate of the lx brand?

[Matthias Pfützner]

You (B M) wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Joerg Schilling
> <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > It looks like Oracle is giving up Solaris as a developer and desktop platform.
> 
> Maybe I am saying something stupid, but still... My a little one yen
> in the discussion: who actually expects Solaris to be a desktop
> platform anyway? We have evilapplefanboys macs and Linux around,
> specially for that. For example, Mac outperforming on desktop anyway
> by software quality and amount, and Solaris is perfectly accessible
> via "ssh -X" if I need to do so. Hence personally I see Solaris as a
> true server OS and thus I would rather more like find it with a
> tickless kernel to let it make sense running on ARM, instead of having
> yet another "Not-yet-ubuntu" with so-so desktop quality, that even can
> not run Skype natively.
> 
> Just my little notice, and if I am wrong — please correct. :-)
> 
> -- 
> bo

And the tickless kernel is coming, AFAIK, but who's going to continue the port
to ARM?

        Matthias
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