Re: Why not Solaris on an iPAQ?

On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 09:11:47AM -0500, William Staniewicz wrote:
> I am curious why there seems to be no interest
> or effort made to putting Solaris on an iPAQ or
> similar SA1100 device.

Simply because it is not cool. This might sound like a joke, but I'm
serious. Why are *BSD and Linux so popular? Because they are developed
in an open way by a bunch of committed hackers. Now compare that with
Solaris...

Another issue might be the Sun source license, which is not considered
compatible with the Open Source guidelines.

> Sun does have the ChorusOS and a quick look at
> the documentation seems to imply that 3.2/3.4
> supports StrongArm but maybe I am reading it
> wrong. Would Chorus be useful on an iPAQ?

Hmm, as far as I can read in the FAQ for ChorusOS 4.0 it only supports
ix86, UltraSparc and PowerPC targets.

Erik

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