Applications tested under the lx brand
The following table shows which applications have been tested under the lx brand and describes how well, or poorly, they worked. There are three levels of success:
- Green: Works flawlessly, or nearly so.
- Yellow: Major functionality works, but significant problems have been observed.
- Red: Failures are significant enough to render application useless.
If an application is listed as 'red' or 'yellow' below, it does not mean that the application will never work. Development of the lx brand is ongoing, and we are constantly striving to deliver a higher-fidelity Linux environment. As this is all Open Source software, you are welcome - nay, encouraged! - to dig deeper into why your favorite application is failing, and possibly even provide a fix.
If your experience with an application differs from that reported below, or if you have a report of a new application, please send it to brandz-discuss@opensolaris.org.
| Application | Description Success Level | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| acroread | Adobe's PDF reader | Green | Tested 7.0.1. Available here - at least for now. Newer versions require gtk 2.4, which is not available in the supported Red Hat / CentOS versions. | ||
| apache | Web server | Green | Static pages and simple CGI scripts work. Nothing more complex has been tested. | ||
| Bioware Neverwinter Nights server | Game server | Green | Download location | ||
| firefox | Web browser | Green | |||
| FLEXlm | License Manager | Green | Only the client side has been tested. Testing has only been done in conjunction with MATLAB 7.2 testing since FLEXlm is required for running MATLAB. | ||
| gcc | GNU C compiler | Green | |||
| gdb | GNU debugger | Yellow | Works for single-threaded processes | ||
| GT.M | Database and Mumps Compiler | Green | |||
| Maple 11 | Technical software | Green | 'It works like a charm. No fiddling-around of any kind needed.' | ||
| MATLAB | Technical software | Green | Tested 7.2. Everything seems to work, but we're not exactly MATLAB experts. Later versions of MATLAB don't work since they require newer versions of glibc. | ||
| mysql | Database | Green | |||
| opera | Web browser | Green | |||
| openoffice | Office suite | White | Was flaky for a while, but hasn't been tested in months | ||
| Oracle | Database | Green | |||
| perl | scripting language | Green | |||
| Postgres | Database | Yellow | Can use existing databases, but cannot create new ones. | ||
| quake | Game | Green | Needs native OpenGL drivers for acceptable performance | ||
| Simulink | Dynamic system simulation | Green | Tested 6.4. Everything we tried succeeded, but we didn't have all the industry modules. | ||
| srcds | Game Server | Green | Server for Half-Life 2 based games. Nice writeup on the lx and srcds installation processes here | ||
| skype | Voice over IP | Yellow | Application is functional, but with poor latency | ||
| thunderbird | Mail client | Green | |||
| xchat | IRC client | Green |
on 2009/10/26 12:07