By the way, not Midoris, but Madoris. Mado means windows in Japanese. I used Jaris for a while, and tried Madoris, too. I think Madoris Windows Program Loader is a front-end for Wine. I am not sure the differences, because I've never used Crossover nor Bordeaux.
regards, Takaaki Higuchi On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Che Kristo<c...@opensolaris.org> wrote: > As most of the documentation is in Japanese I don't understand what makes > Midoris any different a Wine distribution than say Crossover or > Bordeaux...do you happen to have any information? > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:16 AM, Anon Y Mous <system5u...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >> OK, the last new killer game-changing application in OpenSolaris was time >> slider, which made it's debut in 2008.11, well now Jaris (the Japanese >> Solaris distro) seems to have this new Wine-like tool already set up that >> makes it VERY easy for clueless new users with no previous UNIX experience >> to use all of their already purchased, pre-existing Microsoft Windows >> software inside OpenSolaris. I've added a link below, which I'm hoping >> points to an English translation of the Japanese documentation done by >> Google: >> >> >> http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://jaris.jp/support-howto2.html&ei=JQ9nSuOfF4_YsgPLxfXnDg&sa=X&oi=translate >> >> Is there any chance we can get this "Midoris" feature included by default >> in one of the upcoming releases of Sun's official OpenSolaris Indiana >> distribution (so we all aren't forced to switch from Indiana to Jaris to get >> this feature pre-installed by default), or is there a licensing issue that >> prohibits this? >> >> Compiling Wine from source and then trying to get everything patched >> together back in my 2008.05 days was a real pain. I say we take Thunderbird >> or some other app that's eating space off from the upcoming 2010.02 release >> and put Midoris on the live CD-ROM so that I can make a live CD demo of >> TimeSlider + Midoris + CIFS that will impress the heck out of my customers. >> >> OpenSolaris as it is right now is just a mere curiosity for a lot of IT >> people that involves words they don't understand like "dtrace" and "smf". >> The very first question people in small business IT shops ask when I show >> them OpenSolaris is "will Photoshop or Microsoft Outlook or Quickbooks or >> ACT! or Crystal Reports or Epicore or Microsoft Word or [insert name of >> Windows app here] run on OpenSolaris?" And when I tell them it probably >> won't without hours of pain and suffering trying to port some unstable Linux >> Wine environment over from Linux to Solaris, that usually ends their >> interest in OpenSolaris and the end result is thousands of dollars in >> potential Solaris support contracts lost forever to Redmond. >> >> Now if I could walk in to Microsoft IT shops and just give them the live >> CD and tell them to boot it up and tell them that all their Windows apps >> will work seamlessly without them having to install or compile anything, AND >> show them what ZFS does, AND get the live OpenSolaris CD to join the Windows >> work group and share files over CIFS at the click of the button. If we can >> do all that, then I guarantee you that there will be a massive tectonic >> shift to OpenSolaris almost overnight (I'm talking exponential growth and >> exponential increase in revenues for Sun via support contracts). Millions of >> people are looking for something to switch to instead of Windows Vista, and >> OpenSolaris could be it! Please don't let this opportunity pass us by! >> >> The key to make OpenSolaris successful in small businesses environments is >> to make it inter-operate with CISCO and Microsoft products better than Linux >> does. Make OpenSolaris inter-operate with the already established Microsoft >> IT base of millions of desktop computers hooked up into an Active Directory >> powered by CISCO routers and switches that exists in many businesses today >> and there is no way that Red Hat Linux will be able to complete. OpenSolaris >> will dominate and become the enterprise OS of choice. Computer hardware >> manufacturers will all embrace OpenSolaris because ZFS performs better with >> more RAM (and the hard ware manufacturers are looking for an excuse to up >> sell the customer to a more powerful computer) and Sun and all the people >> who worked so hard on OpenSolaris will benefit immensely from this new found >> success. >> >> What do you guys think? Midoris in the next version of OpenSolaris? >> >> Yes or No? >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
