Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 19:45:03 +0300 From: Alex Keahan <alex@hightemplar.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history Message-ID: <200406261945.03932.alex@hightemplar.com> In-Reply-To: <20040626125907.5b5b3ae7.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org> References: <34301.1088242340@critter.freebsd.dk> <200406261336.26051.alex@hightemplar.com> <20040626125907.5b5b3ae7.flynn@energyhq.es.eu.org>
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On Saturday 26 Jun 2004 1:59 pm, Miguel Mendez wrote: > On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 13:36:25 +0300 > Alex Keahan <alex@hightemplar.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > Is Solaris/x86 supported by ibcs2 or svr4? Solaris/x86 is being > > actively developed by Sun and is far from extinct. > > Solaris/x86 is a niche product. And Sun seems to change their mind about > Sol/x86 every other week. This used to be the case, but not anymore. Sun are now fully committed to expanding the use of Solaris on Intel. > (They also do that wrt opensourcing java and Solaris) The Java source code is available. The source code to Solaris 8 has also been available for several years now. Ok, so it's not BSD-licensed, but it's certainly good enough to find the proper remedy to improve the failing SVR4 compatibility code instead of axing it. > > - Latest Java SDKs for Solaris/x86 > > Use the linux version? Perhaps. > > - Forte C/C++ optimising compilers for Solaris/x86 (which may some day > > be used to compile FreeBSD kernel) > > As someone who has used that one, I'd rather use Intel's ICC. Forte's > not that a great compiler. I beg to differ. > > - Sun ONE servers for Solaris/x86 (e.g. iPlanet LDAP) > > Again, Linux versions. Not everything is available for Linux, you know. > > - Oracle for Solaris/x86 > > Same as above. > > > - Numerous third-party applications for SCO and Solaris/x86 > > (e.g. backup solutions) > > All enterprise apps from Legato/Veritas/whathaveyou have Linux versions. Not all of them. My DLT drive came with a CD chock-full of backup software for HP-UX, AIX and SCO UnixWare, but none for Linux. > Now, having Solaris compat on *Sparc*, that can be useful Indeed. The removal of compat/svr4 and dev/streams will likely preclude it from ever working on the SPARC platform. > but on x86? Not by a long shot. Yes, on x86. Call it "niche", but unfortunately Solaris/x86 is the only real alternative to Linux on SMP hardware at the moment. As much as I'd love to use FreeBSD-5 instead, it's just not quite there yet. Alex
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