Frank Winkler wrote:

> >Acroread 8.1.1 is also only available on SPARC (and is quite a pita to
> >install because it requires you to find all kinds of libraries it needs;
> >some of which are indeed not part of S10 but on Solaris Nevada it should
> >just run out of the box)
>
> I know - I once tried to upgrade v7 to v8 and found exactly that.

Have you tried using xpdf? It works quite well, usually much faster than
its derivatives like evince. You could also try jpedal (never tried it
myself).

> >The Linux branded zone can run one form of acroread but it will need some
>
> I don't have any deeper knowledge about how this Linux thing should/will
> work. So it's a separate zone running a Linux instance? I thought it's a
> run-time "wrapper" inside Solaris which is capable of executing the Linux
> binary.

It does not work like the freebsd linux emulation.

> >setting up before you can have an automatically started acroread in the
> >zone and give it access to a system which looks locally.
>
> So in fact, it's more or less the same as the ssh tunnel to another box.

Except that you should get the same kind of performance as with a local
software, whereas remote display can be really slow if you don't use
something like NX to make it faster.