[geeks] Carly Fiorina to enter politics? This nation is doomed...

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:32:23PM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > I think the intention was specifically to run it on the IBM POWER
> > machines.
> 
> Yeah, but as a constrained hardware family (limited variations/permutations, unlike x86 PC hardware), it should be a reasonable stretch - heck, they have "UNIXy" drivers for all the hardware already, so porting should be minimal...

And OpenFirmware is already there on the Apple machines...

> Aw, come on - use my new name of Solaris X ;^)

Sure you can't shoehorn an E in there somewhere?

> Seriously, stacking OS would not be the goal, even with GHz G5s in the mix... Now, if I could partition the platform to run OS X and Solaris X in their own partitions that would be nice...

Zones get you halfway there, but they only boot the same level of OS
as the system itself.

--P