W. Wayne Liauh wrote: >> Using CoLinux, the Xming X server, and PulseAudio for >> Windows, the boys and girls behind the Portable >> Ubuntu for Windows project have turned the entire >> Ubuntu distribution into a executable that you can >> run within Windows. You can see some screenshots, and >> download it from their web page. >> >> http://www.osnews.com/story/21255/Portable_Ubuntu_for_ >> Windows >> >> Portable OpenSolaris for Windows anyone? >> >> alan >> > > All of our Windows machines can run "the entire OpenSolaris distribution" via > Sun xVM VirtualBox. Since the main attractions of OpenSolaris are ZFS, > DTrace, SMF, etc., all of which are quite heavy stuff, I don't see the > advantage of reducing it to a mere executable in Windows. > > However, it is an interesting thought if we can combine the advantages of > OpenSolaris and Ubuntu (i.e., have a concerted effort to port all the > applications programs in Ubuntu to OpenSolaris). This will be really > awesome. :-) >
Why would you need them? OpenSolaris already has emacs and gcc :P
