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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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    1. Re:Who could use some help by rainman_bc · · Score: 5, Informative

      You mean like Crossover Office?

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  2. saw this coming... by MachineShedFred · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What, did you think that Novell threw all those millions of dollars at SuSE for fun? Oh no, SuSE is the core of the next NetWare.

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  3. logical next step after acquisition of SuSE by nomad63 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Somehow, someway, Novell needs to make money out of the deal. By basically giving away their product, it is not likely to happen anytime soon. But if they add an arsenal of software which is certified to run on Linux platform, the landscape drastically changes and these changes will favor Novell.

    A big round of applause for this novel (pun intended) idea of Novell...

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  4. Re:Divide and conquer by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Informative

    1. All the BSDs are not entirely different, and commonly share code back and forth amongst them.
    2. There's plenty of extra bullshit, but it's in ports where it belongs.
    3. BSD is obscure when it comes to the desktop, but then so is Linux.
    4. Solaris does not have its roots in BSD exactly:
      1. Solaris is SunOS plus Openwindows.
      2. Openwindows has traditionally meant Sun's X11 plus the openlook environment - which AFAIK still comes with the system.
    5. Solaris 1.x contains SunOS 4.x, which is based on BSD.
    6. Solaris 2.x contains SunOS 5.x, which is based on System V. If you choose to install the proper packages you get a bunch of BSD binaries in /usr/ucb or something like that.

    SunOS4 and SunOS5 are totally different and mostly separate operating systems.

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  5. 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