On 5/28/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/28/06, Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then the alternative is for SUN to get 10 engineers, and get them to > work on an existing opensource project to bring it up to standard or > create an in house version based off licencing specifications. > > Either that, or launch a spear campaign that equates Adobe to killing > cute little bunny rabbits. Sign me up for the latter because I think it may take some real ground swell grass roots demonstration to get this to happen. Maybe we all get tie-dyed T-shirts, big hair, beads and sandals and march on the Adobe offices and hold a "sit in" protesting their methods. It may take that .. or a unified blog and web site launch on every community site we can muster.
Oh, and just as a side note, if you think its bad with the support for Solaris - I can easily say that there are more FreeBSD users out there on x86, and Adobe/Macromedia hasn't provided a plugin :-( For me though, the Adobe Acrobat is not so much of an issue; my greater issue is the need for faster availability of opensource software; take this; last night/afternoon, I spent hours trying to get GCC 3.4.6 and Binutils compiling on Solaris 10 x86 using Studio 11, with no luck. I tried compiling QT using both the bundled (with Solaris) GCC and SUN C++, and it couldn't pick up my installation of CUPS (yes, I had my LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS all declared) - I wanted to run KDE 3.5.2 and the only release available is 3.4.3 - I then proceeded to try and compile from scratch GNOME, but due to its insane number of dependencies (modular is great, by GNOME takes insanity to a whole new level). So unfortunately I've migrated back to FreeBSD (again) - I would really love to run Solaris x86, but when everything I try to compile turns to shyte, one really has to ask whether the maintainers of the source are deliberately making sure their software can't compile on Solaris, or whether the Studio 11 team needs to test their software - if it doesn't compile GCC then there is something wrong with the compiler. Matty _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
