Hi Kaiwai et al, If you want to see software for Solaris x86/x64 you should consider having a look to NexentaOS http://www.gnusolaris.org Erast and Alex are working really hard to build all software using GCC. 9000+ packages now...
I must confess that i started to build/patching/porting OpenOffice.org using GCC and encountered several problems in GCC (3.4.x)... so i ended up building OpenOffice.org using Sun Studio 10 instead. I believe that apart from OpenOffice.org the rest of the packages including Gnome have been rebuild... Ideally I will like to build OpenOffice.org using only GNU development tools. If anyone if it is interested to join this effort, drop me or NexentaOS a line. Having GCC 4.1 bug-free in Solaris x86 is an important milestone. Alberto On Sun, 2006-05-28 at 18:53 +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On 5/28/06, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 27 May 2006 11:27 pm, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > > The sad part, these people think from quarter to quarter, where as I > > > prefer looking 5 years time; where are the products, where is the > > > marketing heading, and are we going to meet those market changes? > > > > I'm not sure I understand. Are you saying that in the past 5 years there > > hasn't been much gain with software for Solaris x86/x64? > > Nope, I'm saying that, in general terms, when executives made > decisions, they're more concerned about the immediate profits rather > than long terms sustainable revenue and profitability - its like > cutting R&D, might give a boost in profits in the near term, but in > terms of the long term, the competitiveness of the company falls > behind, thus impacting on the long term profitability of a company. > Hence the reason I admired Scott when he and his company refused to > buckle under the pressure of cutting R&D. > > As for the last 5 years - name 5 high profile, main stream, software > titles that have come to Solaris x86 - not drivers like OSS, or > plugins like Flash/Shockwave or Real, but application suites like > MYOB, Peachtree accounting etc. etc. > > You're not going to grow the adoption of Solaris x86 either as a > workstation operating system or as an operating system for centralised > processing, aka SUN Ray, if there are no mainstream software titles > available for it, and the problem is made worse by the fact that no > move by making JDS not only the official blessed desktop of Solaris, > but the API and platform to which application vendors should write > their applications to. > > Matty > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
