On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 15:52 -0400, Albert Lee wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 07:09 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > MS Office might actually work today. On Solaris, I have tested Photoshop > CS2 and it has problems with its licencing management (possibly related > to a network issue that hasn't been fully characterised). Acroread > should work, you also have the option of running the SPARC version with > QuickTransit. > > -Albert >
Although it works on Linux, I've found that operating system 'uniqueness' gets in the way of compatibility - I remember when I was running FreeBSD, for example, something that might have worked on wine in Linux might not work properly on wine running ontop of FreeBSD. Matthew
