Kaiwai & others, I'll state that porting/migrating Microsoft-related software to Solaris is pre-Y2000 idealogy. A statement I made earlier mentions 'software maintenance' which is the inherit flaw in this venture.
Can you imagine maintaining all of that software you've just ported/migrated?? What about software only available on the Mac OS X platform?? So if we tackle the post-Y2005 era, we'll see that virtualization environments,containers, zones, and abstraction layers seem more feasible and maintainable. This is more mainstream with video game emulation under one architecture. Basically, you can run any video game designed for any video game console under the same PC hardware environment. So, why not do this for everyday business/graphics apps and utilities?? Saves you time and money in the long run - and greatly increases end-user and corporate acceptance. Basically, you can install and run any Microsoft OS-oriented software (i.e. Microsoft Office 2003, Lotus Notes, SoftImage, or MS Flight Simulator) and Linux/*BSD/GNU-based software under Solaris x86 without much effort if architected correctly. You can even install and run the Nvidia SDK, as it is today, with very minimal effort as an end-user. ~ Ken Mays "Many of us don't have the free time to port/migrate/test 20,847 GNU/Debian packages to Solaris overnite - which is why we buy supercomputers to do it for us...." -------------------- On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 20:50 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > No, I think the thing worse than that, are those who develop > applications as if the whole world revolved around Linux - take the > gnome-cd application, its link to a linux cdrom.h header - now > wouldn't it be smarter to create an abstraction layer between the > devices and applications that that applications don't directly link to > the system, thus make portability that wee bit easier? It's called HAL (hardware abstraction layer) and it will land in nevada shortly. Laca __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
