[OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 10

[ken mays]

Paul,

Actually, the JDS team does a good job in keeping the desktop environment in good shape. 


A lot of the recent desktop software was ported or can be ported. Commercial software like CREO, CATIA, and MathCad work - but now mostly in emulation software for Windows, if not Linux.

~ Ken Mays

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 From: Paul Gress <pgress at optonline.net>
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Sent: Saturday, February 4, 2012 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Firefox 10
 
On 02/ 3/12 12:47 PM, cpforum wrote:
> I ask myself if Sun really try a came back with OpenIndiana/Solaris 11 as an OS desktop alternative too. The crisis and Oracle killed this opportunity :
>
> Here are 4 cancelled (but always working under openindiana) softwares for Solaris :
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/download/ : last is 3.3.0 but we are waiting for new OOo release from Apache fondation or a LibreOffice binary.
>
> http://get.adobe.com/fr/reader/otherversions/ : Adobe reader last is 9.4.1 (Linux is 9.4.7)
> http://arc.opera.com/pub/opera/unix/solaris/ : Opera last is 10.11 (current is 11.62)
> http://www.real.com/realplayer/download : RealPlayer 11 (mp3, ogg, theora, real and some others)
>
>
>
That's the desktop.  I also used Solaris as a workstation.  I used Mechanical Cad software.  Pro-Engineer, AKA Wildfire 5 which ran on Solaris.  It's latest release CREO 1.0 (renamed) now only runs on Windows.

This in my opinion is how Oracle turned a profit so quickly.  The turned off all funds externally and internally to promote and maintain Desktop/Workstation users.
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