I really like some features of OpenSolaris and I'm evaluating it for my small engineering company and for home.
For work I miss widely used engineering tools like octave, scilab, maxima, scipy (and company) and office tools like freeswitch and/or asterisk, inkscape, scribus. Also, many people in the scientific world do use LaTeX. An already mentioned area where a solution is needed is synchronization of contacts and calendar with the mobile phones and Google Apps. For home I think a solution to provide a full set of audio and video codecs (mp3, wma, ...) should be found. As an example, on Ubuntu they also can't distribute proprietary codecs, but to install them it is a matter of adding a repository in the packaging system configuration file. And how to do this is well documented. I know that some of these applications are coming in /pending (/contrib) and I look forward to use them. For others there are spec files (SFE), but if you are not a software developer this means installing all of the necessary tools and find out how to use them. This takes days if you do not have experience. It would be very helpful to be able to install them in a few seconds like in well known GNU/Linux distributions. Fede -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
