[illumos-Discuss] Fate of the lx brand?

[Joerg Schilling]

Matthias Pfützner <Matthias at pfuetzner.de> wrote:

> You (Andrew Gabriel) wrote:
> > 3-4 years later, and I would say this feature (either as Janus, or as
> > an lx zone), is completely past any window of opportunity - indeed it's
> > so distant behind us now, it's not visible anymore.
> >
> > -- 
> > Andrew Gabriel
>
> I agree fully here. Don't forget: We never saw any ISV support for either
> LX-Zones nor lxrun (we even have problems with Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 branded
> zones and ISV support!). All Linux App vendors do rely on a real Linux
> kernel. That can only be achieved by running it in a full V12N environment,
> like VBox, Xen, VMware, you-name-it. And support is a very important driver
> for business decissions in corporations...

It looks like Oracle is giving up Solaris as a developer and desktop platform.
Once this in the mind of other companies, we will no longer have updates for 
programs like acroread.

Then we need something like lkp or a modernized lx brand.

Jörg

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