On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Moinak Ghosh <moinakg at gmail.com> wrote: > Wee need to have this for BeleniX. Any takers to create a Spec file ?
Forgot to mention. Whoever does this should consider putting the the spec file in two places. In the BeleniX SVN repo and also into SFE (http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra/) so that all in the Osol community benefits. Regards, Moinak. > > Regards, > Moinak. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stuart {Balckberry handheld} <stuart at marketdata.com> > Date: Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:32 PM > Subject: [desktop-discuss] Suggestion for Solaris > To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > Team, > > I hope I am writing into the correct discussion group for this. If > not, please excuse my error. > > Last year I started using SXDE on my Panasonic Toughbook CF-29 (HCL > certified) for business here and overseas. More recently, I upgraded > to build 93 of SXCE. It's fantastic. I really find SXCE on my laptop > to be a good business productivity platform, with StarOffice be an > absolute 'must have'. > > After reading and watching many interesting messages going around in > several of the discussion groups here, one thing was missing that I > want to add. Sun had been bundling a PDAsync application with Solaris. > However, with the Blackberry device being probably the fastest growing > wireless business solution on the market and growing fast in Europe, I > would like to suggest giving some serious thought to including a > Blackberry sync solution ithat can sync with Evolution ntegrated with > the Solaris desktop. Since 1989, I have worked in the Wall Street > banking/brokerage firms, which represents one of Sun's largest, if not > the largest, customer sites in the world. Solaris is the standard but > so is Blackberry. If there is a serious intent for Sun to get a good > desktop OS solution out there for the ever growing laptop users > community then it must also present itself as a business solution, and > the financial firms that live on Solaris would be the best starting > place. Solaris on a laptop > could deliver a great solution but it lacks support for a required > item, Blackberry. > > There is a Blackberry application out there on sourceforge.net called > Barry, which runs on Solaris and syncs Blackberry devices. Perhaps > this application can be integrated into the Solaris desktop just as > many other GPL applications have been. Trust me on this, it would add > a lot of value to Solaris for the desktop user. > > Hope this interests someone. > > > Regards, > Stuart > > > This message was sent by Blackberry wireless email and is intended > only for the personal and confidential use of the designated > recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of > this message you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, > distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
