I've got a friend on Canonical's payroll, I'll ping him about the issue and see if he knows the proper channels. -Adam On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:17 AM, King InuYasha <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> King InuYasha wrote: >> > Hey, I just saw this new project out there called Portable Ubuntu ( >> > http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/). >> > Perhaps we could bring something like that to Fedora? We seem to be >> > incorporating more interoperability features lately, and I think this >> > would bring us quite a bit closer to that. Also it lets people try out >> > Fedora without rebooting or using a costly virtual machine. Even better, >> > this brings in the ability to run native Linux binaries on Windows >> > because >> > it is running under the Linux kernel process. Interestingly enough, this >> > could also result in being able to do stuff like side by side testing of >> > Wine vs Windows of the same program. >> >> This uses coLinux which requires administration privileges, so it's not >> quite your average "portable app". Plus, coLinux uses an old kernel (they >> always lag behind the current kernel versions - right now, even the >> development version is stuck at 2.6.22.18) and has performance issues and >> other limitations. You also get a port of an ancient X11 (Xming uses a >> shareware model where only old versions are available for free, right now >> the latest "public domain" version (which is not really public domain, by >> the way, most of it is X11-licensed) is 6.9.0.31, everything newer is >> proprietary (non-redistributable) and has to be paid for, blame the >> non-copyleft license of X11 for allowing that) shoehorned into a foreign, >> non-X11 window manager, so you don't experience any of the modern X11 >> features in Fedora. Just rebooting into a live image is a much better >> solution. >> >> Kevin Kofler > > > Couldn't the patches [used to make the coLinux kernel possible] be forward > ported to the latest 2.6.x kernel? As for the X11 issue, I did notice that. > However it seems that he provides the latest versions of all of his patches > (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/) even though the instructions on > how to use them are kinda out of date > (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/cross.php). I think this is more > or less the same situation with the Xchat Windows binaries, except this guy > has more legal ground, especially with most of it being licensed either LGPL > or X11. > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, King InuYasha <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Hey, I just saw this new project out there called Portable Ubuntu >> > (http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/). >> >> You should probably let Canonical Legal know about that project, its >> probably violating the Trademark guidelines for the Ubuntu marks >> running a non-Canonical built kernel and X server. >> >> -jef > > > I have no idea on how to contact Canonical's legal department, and I have > looked over Canonical's and Ubuntu's site. Not much help there. > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list > -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
