Matthias Pfützner <[email protected]> wrote: > You (Andrew Gabriel) wrote: > > 3-4 years later, and I would say this feature (either as Janus, or as > > an lx zone), is completely past any window of opportunity - indeed it's > > so distant behind us now, it's not visible anymore. > > > > -- > > Andrew Gabriel > > I agree fully here. Don't forget: We never saw any ISV support for either > LX-Zones nor lxrun (we even have problems with Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 branded > zones and ISV support!). All Linux App vendors do rely on a real Linux > kernel. That can only be achieved by running it in a full V12N environment, > like VBox, Xen, VMware, you-name-it. And support is a very important driver > for business decissions in corporations...
It looks like Oracle is giving up Solaris as a developer and desktop platform. Once this in the mind of other companies, we will no longer have updates for programs like acroread. Then we need something like lkp or a modernized lx brand. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss
