On Fri, 01 May 2009 08:17:54 -0700 Aaron Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trying to follow the wiki instructions for Ubuntu 8.10 since it > appears others have gotten it to work including the author of the wiki > > Right of the bat though I run into problem with the apt-get command > when xkb-data-legacy can't be found in the repos. IMHO, SRSS 4.1 should work with xkb-data. Earlier SRSS versions needed xkb-data-legacy. Anyway, you need it only if you enable the X keyboard extensions. > Oh well I guess that's what I get for trying this so soon on an > unsupported release :) And I am afraid this won't get better. I really hoped that we would see something like an open source "SRSS Express" or "OpenSRSS" for OpenSolaris and newer Linux distros -- besides the commercial SRSS+SRWC versions for Solaris10/RHEL. "Take the cash from those who need to provide a Windows desktop (and have to pay for Windows anyway); provide open source for those who still try to deliver Unix (Gnome/KDE) desktops." would have been a good motto. But this didn't happen and it won't happen now. It needs a bold management decision and nobody in Sun's management will dare to make such a decision now. Anyway, SRSS is in an "partially open" state: - there are a lot of shell scripts in SRSS and Sun tolerates that we patch them and distribute the patches - the Linux kernel modules are under the GPL - there is no nagging licence management in SRSS All this should not be taken for granted. I share the concerns Sean Clarke expressed on this list some weeks ago. Anyway, I heartily wish all the best to the Sun people on this list. You do a great job! I hope you (and the Sunrays) will stay! -- Meik -- Meik Hellmund Mathematisches Institut, Uni Leipzig e-mail: [email protected] http://www.math.uni-leipzig.de/~hellmund _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
