Illumos Dropping SPARC, Allows For Newer Compiler + Eventual Use Of Rust In The Kernel

[pracedru]

Because it's a toy OS with no serious talent working on it.

For a toy os it is working pretty well.

[tildearrow]

Because it's a toy OS with no serious talent working on it.

I wonder if OpenIndiana is benchmarkable now or still not...

[pracedru]

I tried the new rfelease of Open Indianna Hipster and i was surprised at how much RAM it was using compared to an equivalent Linux desktop.
Does anyone know why OI Hipster is so RAM thirsty?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Illumos Dropping SPARC, Allows For Newer Compiler + Eventual Use Of Rust In The Kernel

The Illumos project born out of the former Sun Microsystems OpenSolaris codebase has decided to end support for SPARC hardware...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Illumos-Drops-SPARC