I agree and I apologize for the "Run something else answer" I previously
gave. I've been down this exact road before. I asked this question on
the OpenSolaris mailing list once. I basically asked, Solaris is
continually gaining market share in the x86 world, has anyone heard if
Adobe plans to port reader to x86? The initial response I got was from a
Sun employee and not very nice and told me Sun has nothing to do with it
and you should use Evince. And that wasn't the answer to what I asked.
Basically it comes down to Adobe porting it to x86. Why they have Sparc
up to date and not x86 I'll never understand. I asked that question when
IBM started shipping their servers with Solaris. I half way want to go
back and ask again now that Dell is going start shipping servers with
Solaris.
This is kind of off topic for the sunray list. I apologize. Seems to me
though the question seems to get ignored completely in the Adobe forums.
I'm of the opinion these days this can be talked about here or the
opensolaris forums or wherever. I do it cause I figure in this day in
age is all it takes is someone to digg or slashdot this thread and Adobe
wouldn't be able to ignore us x86 users anymore. One can hope anyways :)
Alexander Koponen wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Robert Prendergast wrote:
I know that Adobe seems to refuse to compile an x86 version of Reader,
but I was wondering if anyone has successfully found any better
alternatives.
Any help is appreciated.
I know this will sound controversial to some... but - this is one of
the main reasons we run Sun Ray Linux (inspite it's problems).
However I doubt this will help you today.
(Aren't we all tired of: "Hi, I have problems with this software" -
"Run something else!" (instead of giving help))
--
You could:
1. Run evince
2. Run BrandZ (or another virtualization software) with Linux and then
make acroread be an alias for "ssh -X linuxmachine acroread" - This
was the suggestion by SUN's representative when he came out to look at
our system.
3. Have a dedicated Linuxbox that does the same as above but without
virtualization.
We were really near to run with option 3 ourselves (since we bought
SUN-AMD machines cause the UltraSPARC ones were 4 times as expensive)
but just a week before deployment SRSS 4.0 early access release came
and just worked - so we ran with that.
--
Opinion:
(skip this part and you'll be less likely to be bitter like me)
I think some fail to realize how important acroread are to some unix
users. The real reason why acroread ain't available for solaris x86
still eludes me - but if I were in power I would pay anything to get
it. (I would also pay anything for Adobe Acrobat for Unix/Linux - but
I've concluded (since I met Adobe last time) that this will never ever
happen).
-- Alexander
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