Fedora, Portable Edition?

[Adam Miller]

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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> 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 how to use them are kinda out of date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 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, King InuYasha <ngompa13 at gmail.com> 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.
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