You must not have googled for the audio & video codecs recently...for proprietary + supported go to: http://www.fluendo.com/ for open source packages go to: http://solaris.homeunix.com/
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Federico Beffa <beffa at ieee.org> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090802/0bdf84d4/attachment.html>
