Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Aug 2006 08:23 UTC, submitted by jamesd
Engineers at Sun are working on a 'small' version of Solaris 10. "I've got a modified Solaris miniroot with ZFS functionality which takes up about 60 MB (the compressed image, which GRUB uses, is less than 30MB). Solaris boots entirely into RAM. From poweron to full functionality, it takes about 45 seconds to boot on a very modest 1GHz Cyrix Mini ITX motherboard."
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2005-12-28
That sounds very-very interesting - there's a lot of situations where a slim Solaris would come in handy.
Just one thing, the Cyrix processors reign ended with the MII-400GP and didn't OC very well - the mentioned 1Ghz processor more sounds like a Via C5/C7, which still is based on the Centaur Winchip design (And actually still developed by Centaur).