I am with you Bob. I just submitted, for the third time, a feature request to Adobe.
Everyone on this list should do the same. How hard could it be to take the source for Linux and build for X86 Solaris10? On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:55 -0400, Bob Doolittle wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
