+1 much appreciated on the project idea as I too have had my share of grips with Wine on Solaris.
James On May 28, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Ghee Teo wrote: > Hi Ch?, > > A simple distinction between a community and project is that the > former > is on-going by adding new updates or new components to the existence > of > that community it tries to server, and the later simply a finite time > period where some pre-defined tasks are completed. > Though it is more flexible to be a project in terms of getting your > own > web spaces and files repositories on OpenSolaris.Org since > community in > general are made up of a bigger group of people, the leadership (hence > ability to edit webpages and allocate files repositories) are more > straighter controlled. > > I like your proposal under the Desktop (be it a project or sub- > community) > +1 from me > > -Ghee > > Ch? Kristo wrote: >> First of all I am not exactly clear on how these things are done >> officially as there is no documentation on os.org (not that I can >> find anyway) as to how a community is proposed. My understanding >> that a community is a precursor to a project...feel free to guide >> me in the right direction. >> >> What I am proposing: >> A community focused on running Wine on OpenSolaris and it's >> derivitaves (Belenix, Indiana, SXDE and so on). This proposal >> includes related open source technologies such as Wine-Doors. >> >> What is Wine?, sourced from Wikipedia: >> Wine is a software application which aims to allow Unix-like >> computer operating systems on the x86 architecture to execute >> programs written for Microsoft Windows. Wine also provides a >> software library known as Winelib which developers can compile >> Windows applications against to help port them to Unix-like systems. >> >> How will this benefit the OpenSolaris community and in particular >> the desktop community?: >> The OpenSolaris community and Sun Microsystems are reaching out to >> developers by positioning OpenSolaris as a desktop development >> platform. Many developers use their systems also as a desktop >> platform and need to use the same applications as their Windows >> using colleagues. The most common being applications like Photoshop >> or Visio. >> >> Support: >> Link: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=48261&tstart=0 >> This was proposed in the discuss community but it looks like it >> didn't get any attention as it wasn't proposed in the Desktop >> community >> >> Resources: >> WineHQ: http://winehq.org/ >> Wine-Doors: http://www.wine-doors.org/wordpress/ >> Codeweavers: http://www.codeweavers.com/ >> Blastwave wine: http://www.blastwave.org/wine/ >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
