Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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. Yes, it would be nice to get Adobe Acrobat reader onto X86 Solaris. Adobe's acroread is already available for Sparc so really it would only need a recompile and QA. I think the opensource community has at least as much sway with Adobe as Sun does. When we become impossible to ignore, Adobe will probably give us the courtesy of a recompile. Fortunately, evince is a good pdf viewer. A huge advantage of evince is that it is opensource and if you find a bug there's a good chance you can fix it.
Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> [...] >> - 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. >> > > You may want to try out Bochs an IA-32 PC emulator. I have successfully > tried it out in the past on SPARC Solaris. > http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ > > Among the features is an internal debugger which might prove useful > to you. Xen is also worth a look: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/ Rather than emulating the x86 hardware, BrandZ implements kernel (e.g. linux) calls in Solaris. This allows you to use dtrace or other Solaris tools on the linux program. Since linux kernel APIs change much more often than x86 hardware, you can't assume that a linux application will run unless it is designed for the kernel your BrandZ zone is mapping. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/brandz/ >> 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...) >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
