http://www.osnews.com/story/21639/First_Release_OpenSolaris_ARM_Port_Available Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:58:46 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?367576 http://osnews.com/thread?367576 Doubt it would be that useful, but a fun thought :-) Tue, 09 Jun 2009 10:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367579 http://osnews.com/thread?367579 I also very much doubt the usefulness of this. Seeing that a default install of OpenSolaris is more demanding than Vista in my experience. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kragil) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367582 http://osnews.com/thread?367582 but an iphone webserver :-)

p.s. I said this in jest but its only a matter of time before SOMEONE does it! Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367602 http://osnews.com/thread?367602 when will aix, vms and z/os follow? ;-)

seriously: if linux and osx can run on phones, why not solaris? an arm port might even be usefull fpr servers, as arm attempts to move into server space:

"Chip makers have approached the company to use its low-power chip architecture in servers, which could lower power consumption and total cost of server ownership, said Ian Ferguson, director of enterprise solutions at Arm."
http://www.itworld.com/arm-takes-on-intel-in-server-space-080619

actually, there are older arm-based servers: http://66.18.227.240:8080/ :-) Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (puenktchen) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367606 http://osnews.com/thread?367606 Yeah, i think OpenSolaris on a Router (ddwrt-esque) would be awesome.


Choice is good! Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (slashdev) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367629 http://osnews.com/thread?367629 OpenSolaris on a Gumstix PC http://gumstix.com/ would be nice. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jokkel) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367668 http://osnews.com/thread?367668 Sorry about my ignorance, but what Vista has to do with this?

Besides, ease of installation is hardly relevant in the embedded space. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (strcpy) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367686 http://osnews.com/thread?367686 To tell the truth, I don't see that much sense in an iPhone with OpenSolaris... but OTOH, OpenSolaris' FMA, multithreading and networking developments, and SMF make perfect sense on devices like PACs, moderns PLCs and routers.

I really would love to see it going that way, let's see how far can this port get! Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Phobos) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367687 http://osnews.com/thread?367687 Now if only someone ports android to solairs/arm, maybe I could use Solaris as my primary OS on my G1 ... =p Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jondice) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367704 http://osnews.com/thread?367704 Will I be able to run it on my Psion 5mx?
Or my Acorn RiscPC?Edited 2009-06-10 09:52 UTC Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (posaune) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367744 http://osnews.com/thread?367744 I think this might make more sense than some people realize. Two of the biggest costs for a data center are the power to run the servers and the power to cool them. ARM processors are now getting to the performance level that they could be useful for lower-performance server applications, especially if used in a cluster. As ARM chips get more powerful, and multi-core, multi-processor, very low power ARM machines become available, it's an architecture that makes perfect sense in a data center.

As for Open Solaris's use in embedded applications, I'm not sure I see that as being quite as practical. Every time that I've used Solaris, regardless of the environment, it consistently seems to be a sluggish memory hog. When you are talking about large companies that have mountains of cash to throw lots of hardware at those problems, it's not as much of an issue, but I'm not really sure how that's going to work with resource constrained embedded systems. Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (supercompman) Comments