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Novell to Help Port Applications to Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the people-still-use-novell dept.

An anonymous reader writes "eWeek is reporting that: "Novell announced the program at its European BrainShare 2004 tradeshow in Barcelona, Spain." "Under the initiative, leading software and hardware vendors, including Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM, Intel Corp., Oracle Corp. and Scali Inc. will work with Novell help their software partners deploy their platforms and solutions on SUSE Linux, according to Novell Inc."

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  1. Who could use some help by DaveInAustin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they could help MS port office.

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  2. Three words... by chill · · Score: 2, Funny

    Developers, developers, developers!

    The monkey-boy dance is left up to the end user.

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  3. The enemy of my enemy ... by YetAnotherName · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... is my friend, as the old saying goes.

    And so long as they keep the Unix trademark from SCO with the force of a thousand lawyers with lasers strapped to their heads, they're fine by me.

  4. Re:saw this coming... by jhoffoss · · Score: 4, Funny
    No, no, no. You have it all wrong.

    Linux will rule the world through Novell. Novell will be nothing but our puppet.

    <insert evil laugh here>

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  5. Damn is this big red 'N' ugly! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sorry, but this is really the ugliest and most irritating topic logo. Does it have to be that aggressive shade of red? It hurts my eyes!

  6. Not easy to port from Microsoft to KDE librairies by effco · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here is a replied I received from the UltraEdit peoples :

    Hello Frederic,

    Thanks for your message and suggestion. Ian has looked into this and
    other tools. The biggest barrier here is that much of UltraEdit's
    code is based on MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes). Because of this
    porting UltraEdit to Linux is not a minor undertaking as functions
    using MFC would have to be completely rewritten from scratch.

    Thanks, Troy

    Thursday, September 16, 2004, 5:28:25 AM, you wrote:

    fcsb> Hello,
    fcsb> is there any plan to port UltraEdit to Linux ?
    fcsb> If so, you could for example use the Qt C++ framework
    fcsb> from Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com/) to speed up the
    fcsb> process
    fcsb> so that UltraEdit would available under KDE
    fcsb> (www.kde.org), the Linux's most used desktop system.
    fcsb> There is plenty of Linux text editor but none of them has
    fcsb> ever reached the level of quality of UltraEdit,
    fcsb> so I really think you could gaim some market shares up there too !
    fcsb> sheers,
    fcsb> Frederic

  7. where is... by glitch23 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Microsoft? They aren't listed.

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  8. Re:Not easy to port from Microsoft to KDE librairi by nacturation · · Score: 2, Funny

    Of course, the KDE project could always write a replacement for Microsoft's MFC. They could call it... wait for it... KFC. [Cue lame joke music, cut to commercial.]

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  9. Whoa man, thats Deep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I meen thats like a bug in the Monkeys software. a Pathing problem of sorts.