Darrel Hankerson wrote:
Leigh Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I thought Sol 10 x86 could run Linux binaries? Use the Linux Acroreader..
This involves Solaris Express and a very preliminary "Solaris
Containers for Linux" (brandz).
Also, I don't consider it an acceptable solution to tell people
they have to create a separate zone and dedicate it to Linux
to fill the gap for one or two missing Solaris apps...
Would you be happy with an answer like that?
To me, that may work, and it may be acceptable as
a workaround. It's even a neat trick I can
respect, from an engineering perspective. But
it's fundamentally a kludge and burdensome to the
customer, and wherever possible should be avoided.
PDF viewing is so ubiquitous a need I don't want
to see it solved in this manner. It should be trivial for
Adobe to recompile on an x86 platform and release it,
they only need the motivation.
I don't know that this can be recommended for a production Sun Ray
server. I've tested briefly, and it is indeed impressive when it
works. Matlab seems to function, and Maple 10 functions if the
classic interface is used. There are problems possibly associated
with java (e.g., Novell Groupwise client, maple 10 non-classic
interface).
I understand the reasons for the delays, but Sun promised a
Linux-on-Solaris-10 solution years ago. It makes choosing Solaris/x86
difficult, since companies like matlab and maple have (recently) told
us that that there is no schedule for a Solaris/x86 release.
Yes it has to be the customers demanding support for the
platform, vendors are less likely to believe Sun then they
are their own customers.
-Bob
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