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Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS...

> Imagine if Solaris could be used as a kernel for a mobile OS...

I'm imagining, and as things stand, my imagination is hinting at crappy battery life due to lack of tuning.

But if you want to try, Solaris was forked long ago -- Illumos is out there.

Sun used to sell Toshiba laptops with Solaris x86 pre-installed.

And Sparc laptops too

SPARCstation SLC: the "Silly Little Computer", with the computer built into the monitor cabinet.

http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/Sun4c/SYS...

And the bizarre quazi-portable-but-definitely-not-laptop SPARCstation Voyager:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2CprTGEIS8

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/SPARC-HOWTO-5.html

http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/ThirdPartyProducts/ThirdP...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WORKING-Rare-SUN-Voyager-SPARCstatio...

http://www.shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Systems/SSVygr/4m...

The SPARCbooks (and the SPARCstation Voyager) were all made by Tadpole

Sun also bought Cobalt Networks (for $2 billion), the company behind the Cobalt Qube, soon after their successful IPO. The Qube was a cool Unix server appliance, targeted at ISPs, etc. [1] I worked for a short while at a startup that used one of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Qube

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_Networks

[1] Sun's buy of Cobalt had bad timing, since the dot-com bust happened soon after.

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