I'm sure other people have complained about this, but I thought I'd ping
again to find out if Sun is working to address the lack of a few
applications on Solaris x86:
- Adobe Acrobat Reader. There are still some PDFs that I come
across that give xpdf or gpdf fits. I've not tried evince yet, mostly
because I don't want to have to upgrade my whole desktop for just this
one application.
- VMWare. It would be really, really cool if I could run VMWare
player on Solaris, or even better, the VMWare Server product. Then I
could create virtual instances of Solaris, and also host NetBSD (or,
gasp, even Linux!) inside VMWare. As I do kernel development of NetBSD,
this would be really, really useful to me.
There are probably other things that people want, but the VMWare product
would immediately make most things available, and requires less overhead
than other solutions. (I know, I could probably set up a Solaris Zone,
run Linux in it, and host the VMWare player in it. Has anyone tried
that? I still haven't tried Solaris Zones, but I'm also running Solaris
10 3/05. I suppose I should upgrade...)
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Garrett D'Amore, Principal Software Engineer
Tadpole Computer / Computing Technologies Division,
General Dynamics C4 Systems
http://www.tadpolecomputer.com/
Phone: 951 325-2134 Fax: 951 325-2191
