Brian Cameron wrote: > > Luis: > > I think this thread has generated a lot of interesting responses.
I agree, and I want to let everybody know I'm listenting to all the suggestions. I will create some place to store this ideas and suggestions, probably a wiki so everybody can edit it them and add more. Unfortunately I can't reply to all the topics of this thread, which has been very useful. But don't be surprised if some of the things commented become part of the development plans for 2009.02 release. Thanks to everybody, keep on the constructive criticism! \m/ Luis > However, I think this discussion would be more productive if we were > to clarify what types of users OpenSolaris should or could be targeting. > > For example, using GNOME with the Sun Ray product seems a perfect fit > for educational institutions, libraries, hospitals, hotels, public > kiosks, etc. Now that Sun Ray has finally migrated to an Xorg based > Xserver, accessibility is working much better with GNOME on Sun Ray. I > would think that such accessibility support would make OpenSolaris > with Sun Ray even more attractive to places like schools. > > However, OpenSolaris is probably lacking a lot of software that would > help make it attractive to these sorts of users. There is very little > educational software available, for example. Also not many games that > might make OpenSoalris attractive to a younger audience. There is a lot > of educational and game free software out there, but nobody has ported > them to OpenSolaris yet. > > I'd think there would be value in exploring what sorts of programs > we should consider making available in OpenSolaris to make it more > attractive to a wider audience, not just the normal developer or > office worker use cases which are pretty well addressed with OpenSolaris > today. > > Brian > > >> V ?t, 28. 07. 2009 v 16:30, Luis de Bethencourt p??e: >>> Hello everyone! >>> >>> I was wondering... what do you feel is missing in the OpenSolaris >>> Desktop? We all have our small little things that we miss from the >>> linux (rest of open source) world: this or that useful software that >>> is in Ubuntu, or that nice feature that is in FreeBSD. >>> >>> What are these things? It would be great to make a listing of them and >>> try to fix them. The better we know the problems the easier we find >>> the solutions. >>> >>> We all have made small sacrifices when we switched from other systems. >>> All the benefits of OpenSolaris shouldn't come with the cost of >>> missing X or Y software. >>> >>> Cheers, really appreciate the help,
