I really need to work on my "Reply All" button > SLUG, > > Is it possible to run Linux applications through Solaris? I was reading in distrowatch.com that a new distro, Nexenta, is seeking to marry GNU and Solaris, > which literally thinking this seems like a good idea.
However there are known license issues. > Is there a product like CodeWeavers available to Solaris to run Linux applications. Many of the larger "linux" based projects such as Apache, Gnome and MySQL have Solaris native ports already. > Being new to Linux I am amazed at the number of distros available in the marketplace. Ain't choice grand :) > If Linux is ever going to compete with MAC/Windows on a commercial level why not > have a hybrid GNOME/KDE/SOLARIS (UNIX) distro, and essentially take the best > qualities of each? Again there are legal issues as well as techinical problems with this. The first is the incompatibility between Suns CDDL (the license used to cover the OpenSolaris project) and the Free Software Foundations GPL which covers a hell of a lot of Linux based software. The Nexenta project brought this issue to light with its plans to use OpenSolaris kernel space and Ubuntu/Debian user space apps. Secondly, projects such as KDE and Gnome, as diametrically opposed as they may seem some times actually do cooperate on some levels to achieve at least some standardisation between the two desktop environs. And frankly I think the two push each other to bigger and better things rather than stagnating because they ae the only player. > Dom > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Podcast, Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977 -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Linux Australia Update http://k-sit.com - My Blog http://la-pod.k-sit.com - Linux Australia Update Podcast, Blog and Forums Skype: purserj1977 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
