I found this link and I thought it would be interest to share. It would eb cool to see OpenSolaris on Pegasos, Efika & PowerMac.

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ppc-dev/

This project pops up now? It was a very, very old initiative sponsored by Genesi, which I believe got completelly stalled by lack of interest.

Well, there's not much traffic...
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> got completelly stalled by lack of interest.

Yes, seems so. Last update was about a year ago according to status page:

http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+ppc-dev/status

there was a solaris kernel booting on pegasos, a few years back, that i tried, but yes it seems to be a dead project. Who's gonna use solaris on ppc anyway ? too bad, it's one of my fav unixes.

OpenSolaris seems to be cool on the PC. Wish there was a version for the Peg2.

IIRC there was a port but was never released... I seem to remember talking to the dev when I worked for Genesi...

> IIRC there was a port but was never released...

I don't think that's true. OpenSolaris is open source and everything that was ever done on the Pegasos port by the Polaris team and dedicated SUN Labs people is publically available. It was never more than a half-complete kernel.

Quote:

exactly.

After Oracle burnt OpenSolaris to death in August, new open source projects arose from its ashes:

http://www.illumos.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illumos

http://openindiana.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIndiana

As far as I can see no PPC version planned, though.

Sun Labs picked up the project, which was cool, but...

Here was the last report of the Sun LabsProject Manager:

After 10+ years here I've decided to pursue opportunites outside of Sun. My last day is today As far as the project, we have all but a few of the shared libs building and can build certain items in cmd. Brian has finished rtld and we are debugging init and sh right now. Hopefully we will get the sh shell very soon.

All of the code is generally out on the opensolaris project site. We are moving our build servers external. I will be continuing to drive the project from the outside.

That was the last we heard from him. That was 9 November 2007.

We push here for a bit longer: http://www.blastwave.org/sponsors/index.html

Unfortunately, without strong corporate sponsorship the Project languished. Also, the Efika did not have enough RAM to support OpenSolaris well.

R&B

> Here was the last report of the Sun LabsProject Manager: [...]
> That was the last we heard from him. That was 9 November 2007.

Tom Riddle had been active on the Polaris mailing list as long as February 2008:

http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/2008-February/author.html#1441

That was when he merged in the last(?) code (rev 111), contributed by Guy Shaw of SUN Labs (who had left there the same month, i.e. some months after Tom Riddle, but made his last message to the Polaris mailing list as recently as November 2009 ). It seems that project member Bill Kucharski, who sent his last message to the Polaris mailing list in August 2009 (still tagging himself a SUN employee), didn't achieve as much as was hoped for.