--- On Thu, 4/29/10, Anon Y Mous <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Anon Y Mous <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Opera drops browser support for Solaris > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, April 29, 2010, 3:56 PM > We need to protest this loudly as a > community because Opera is the only web browser that makes > it easy to browse the web from inside a Solaris zone (for > more secure web browsing). If you don't believe me just > create a zone, download the Opera SVR4 package, "pkgadd -d" > it inside the zone, then ssh -X into the zone and check what > IP address you are browsing from. I would imagine that any > exploits run against the Opera browser would run in the > zone's chrooted environment. I don't think this is really a problem. As long as sources and portability is maintained for FreeBSD/Linux, then a port to Oracle Solaris is not that hard for other people to do. The memo seems more like "we will not provide primary support or compiled binaries of future Opera browser releases for Solaris/OpenSolaris". This no different than the Blender community which may support binary releases for only a certain platform and version of Oracle Solaris (i.e. Solaris 10 SPARC). This is where the community and Oracle's support for the smaller ISVs and organizations that port **ANY** software to Oracle Solaris/OpenSolaris become important to help sustain and grow the community. ~ Ken Mays _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
