Hi David, I don't think you need to worry about people not welcoming you because you are Catholic. I am an Orthodox Christian and have no qualms with letting the community here know about it. So yeah...welcome!
As a short term solution have you thought about running these windows applications on top of Wine? Che Kristo On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 16:45, David Billiot <dl...@le.ac.uk> wrote: > When I used to use Windows there were these two programs that I used to use > a lot. One is called Words written by a guy named William Whittaker and the > other is a program called Vulsearch. Both are open source; Words in the > sense that Mr. Whittaker has released the source and doesn't care what you > use the program for and Vulsearch is actually GPL. So considering that both > of these are open source and pretty simple they could probably be ported > over to Solaris. > > Now before I go any further I already know what some of you are thinking. > You go to the Vulsearch site and see that it is a Catholic program for > reading the Vulgate Bible. I can see you all reeling back in disgust. I > know I am not really welcome here but I'm not going to stop being who I am > so just know that your hate mail will go into the trash unread. The worst > you can do is just have me banned again which as you can probably tell won't > stop me from being who I am either but at least you won't have to deal with > me anymore. > > Anyway like I was saying, Words basically has no license with the idea that > it needs no license and Vulsearch is GPL. I myself am not a big fan of the > GPL but we take what we can get. The source code for both of these programs > is available so they should be portable to Solaris. > > Let me take a moment to address an objection I have heard before. Both of > these programs work great under Wine so some may ask why port them if they > already work perfectly under Wine on Solaris. Well the answer is simple, > Solaris is not just another way to run Windows programs. Programs like > iSilo that have not been ported and can not be ported to Solaris I run under > Wine. I currently run Words and Vulsearch with Wine but a native port would > be better. > > Let me address another objection. Some may ask why anyone in the > OpenSolaris community should waste their time on a terminal program that is > nothing but a Latin - English dictionary or a program used to search and > read the Vulgate. I would point out that someone in the community already > used their time to make a game about Dealing Drugs. Please don't tell me > that the Open Solaris community is open to Drug Dealers but not people who > can read Latin. Of course since I put it that way I will probably be banned > again. > > The source for Vulsearch is well beyond my programming abilities but I did > already take a shot at the Words program. Someone else already ported it to > Linux and FreeBSD and wrote their steps down so I figured I could do the > same thing. I needed an ADA compiler and got the GCC4 from Blastwave. I > tried several time to compile the different parts of the program using > gnatmake but to no avail. The program will compile and run but is broken. > English to Latin works fine amazingly but the Latin to English won't work, > which is a shame because that is what most people will want the program for. > > I have downloaded an Ada plugin for Netbeans and will try to compile the > program again but I don't really think I know enough about Netbeans to get > it to work. > > Before the last time when I was banned there was someone in the community > who said something about changing the language for the program from Ada to > something else but I can't remember what and now that the website has > changed, I can't find the conversation. > > So if anyone would like to help with this and try to get either Words or > Vulsearch ported and maybe even added to the contrib repository then lets > work on it. I am not a programmer but I have been learning a lot since I > started using Open Solaris. Let me know what I have to do and I will try to > get it done. People with just objections and hateful comments about us > "evil Christians" take a hike someplace where they are giving out Darwin > awards cause I don't feel like hearing it. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >
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