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Renault Clio
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Join date: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 130
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10-09-2007 04:10
Until there's actual binary packages available for Solaris, or you overcame the urge to kill yourself trying to patch and compile it yourself, there's a pretty handy crutch in Solaris, allowing you to run it with a little initial effort and even gets you the closed source functionality not available in native compiles. How, take a close look at this and tell me what's wrong with that: From: someone root@ubuntu:~# uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.18 BrandZ fake linux i686 GNU/Linux
root@ubuntu:~# ps -e | grep secondlife
2171 ? 00:00:00 secondlife
root@ubuntu:~# echo $DISPLAY
192.168.1.18:0
root@ubuntu:~# Running it in a lx26 branded zone (Linux 2.6 support courtesy Nevada build 72 and upwards) and X11 forwarding via DISPLAY. Additionally hammered the Nvidia GLX into the zone, providing at least subjective increased smoothness. Framerate is more than acceptable, even over TCP/IP. |
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Allen Kerensky
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Join date: 16 Aug 2004
Posts: 95
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10-10-2007 08:15
Renault,
Thanks for the information!
I did not know that BrandZ could finally support 2.6 kernels.
Time to re-install... I think I am still on b55 here.
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Renault Clio
Registered User
Join date: 26 Aug 2004
Posts: 130
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10-13-2007 09:01
Support for 2.6 came with snv_72. You should go for CentOS though, the Ubuntu init process gets stuck at runlevel S. More than enough to run Linux applications, though. They don't offer system archives, you'd have to create them yourself (instructions on the BrandZ community page, just use QEMU instead of doing a real install).
Audio is broken in SL for no apparent reason (UT2004 has audio just fine), but you still get Kakadu JPEG2000 and built-in Firefox by using BrandZ over a natively compiled version.
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