Fedora, Portable Edition?

[Adam Miller]

Got a reply already. They are aware and it is "currently under review by legal".

-Adam

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Adam Miller <maxamillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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