On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 04:53 -0700, 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/
Sounds like a great idea; it would be awesome to get to a stage where people can run Microsoft Office, Photoshop and numerous other popular titles on Solaris - including the much demanded but never delivered (due to laziness on Adobes part) Acrobate Reader. matthew
