Hi Aaron, see:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop/communities/wine/ -Roman Aaron Houston wrote: > Hey... > fyi ...here is a *question I got from the Houston TX JUG leader who > read Alan's post to the advocacy list*...(JimB also happens to be a > member of the Houston Linux community).... > > *Has the OpenSolaris team done any investigation of porting WINE to > Solaris or engaging the WINE team?* > > Does it make sense? to engage the WINE team...? VirtualBox? > > here is a similar post/question > <http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Unix/Solaris/Q_23148533.html> > about someone who installed Solaris 10 on a Dell PowerEdge server and > was asked to install Wine and use the Dell as an emulation server.. > > Thanks... > > Aaron > > Jim Bethancourt wrote: >> Has the OpenSolaris team done any investigation of porting WINE to >> Solaris or engaging the WINE team to help with such an endeavor? >> This could at least be a stopgap measure if not a solution. >> >> Aaron, I'm not sure if this will reach the Champions Users list since >> I'm not on it, so you may need to forward it onto their list if it >> doesn't show up. >> >> Cheers, >> Jim >> Houston JUG President >> >> >> >> Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>> Uros Nedic wrote: >>> >>>> ...why SUN, as a global corporation when decided to go to the market >>>> of >>>> operating systems >>>> for personal computers, laptops, nettops, netbooks, etc., did not make >>>> some >>>> contacts with >>>> Adobe, Autodesk, Wolfram Research and other software vendors to ask >>>> them for >>>> porting their >>>> commercial software to OpenSolaris? >>>> >>> What makes you think Sun didn't do this? The soon-to-be-released >>> Adobe Acrobat >>> for OpenSolaris & Solaris x86 is one example of a company heavily >>> lobbied by Sun >>> to port. When it comes to dealing with other companies, you're not >>> going to >>> know most of what happens, because it happens behind closed doors - not >>> all >>> companies are interested in transparency or in weakening their position >>> in >>> ongoing negotiations by having details made public. >>> >>> >>>> And for the end of this letter - last observation. Here, we will >>>> develop >>>> drivers for existing >>>> and old devices, but also, SUN should approach big hardware vendors (at >>>> least!), and agree >>>> with them driver support for their future hardware products. >>>> >>> Again, been happening for years. In the area I'm most familiar with, >>> Intel & >>> nVidia work with us to make sure their new graphics products have >>> drivers when >>> released. >>> >>> >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss > -- Roman Strobl OpenSolaris Evangelist http://blogs.sun.com/observatory
