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KDE in a Zone

Posted by Hemos on from the good-learning-material dept.

James Dickens writes "Mini-Howto Getting KDE 3.4 to run in a zone is posted at http://uadmin.blogspot.com/ Running KDE 3.4 in a zone Not only does zones make a great play area to test software. You can erase it all with two commands. If you want to keep the software you can continue to run it in a zone, or you can install in the global zone for permanent use."

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  1. Bad story icon by molnarcs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is not penguin news, this is about kde on solaris.

  2. Why is this in the Linux section? by Stephen+Williams · · Score: 4, Informative

    The "zones" mentioned in the article are nothing to do with Linux, and everything to do with Solaris.

    -Stephen

  3. I feel fully enlightened by samael · · Score: 2

    Hurrah! For years I've been awaiting the ability to....

    um....

    something!

    Something very exciting!

    If only this was connected to Vinge's Zones - then we'd have something to be excited about, rather than complete confusion...

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    1. Re:I feel fully enlightened by hey! · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I call bad slashdot form.

      Admitting ignorance means admitting weakness. You are inviting the moderators to thin the herd.

      What you are supposed to do is do a quick Google search on "Solaris Zones", spend five minutes getting a superficial idea of what they are. Then you are supposed to write a post that dismisses them as useless because your favorite operating system doesn't have them, but instead has some other capability (e.g. xen). Your argument need only stand up to a level of scrutiny that similar to your "Solaris Zones" Google search.

      By the way, what's Lilith been up to these aeons?

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    2. Re:I feel fully enlightened by trandism · · Score: 2, Funny

      Solaris Zones Suck Xen Rules (just kidding, I don't have a clue)

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  4. Zone != chroot by Codename_V · · Score: 2, Informative

    Processes running in a zone are completely isolated from the rest of the system, not just the filesystem. So you can't monitor or interact with processes that aren't in your zone, even if you're root. So to say that a zone is just another name for a chroot environment is completely wrong.

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