"Some of the requested user applications are possible to run under wine or Virtualbox and Linux. Therefore I think those should not be prioritized, for instance, games."
I know this approach is OK for some but being able to run an application under Wine or Virtualbox should never be considered as an acceptable solution...sure with programs like MS Office where there is no chance of a native port but on the whole it adds too much complexity. Keep in mind that Solaris runs on Sparc and in the future ARM, Wine and Virtualbox won't be around for those platforms :-| On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Orvar Korvar <knatte_fnatte_tjatte at yahoo.com > wrote: > Some of the requested user applications are possible to run under wine or > Virtualbox and Linux. Therefore I think those should not be prioritized, for > instance, games. Instead, I would like to have things that are not portable > nor easy to find a substitute: > > -3D graphic driver for ATI cards > > -power saving functionality, ability to manipulate the clock frequency of > the CPU, ability to access hardware to read off CPU / GPU temperature, etc. > The CPU goes wild in laptops I suspect. In Windows I just downclock the CPU > and it quiets. > > -Conky, which is a utility similar to gkrellm but much nicer. Both of these > hardware monitoring utilities relies on functionality to access the > hardware, I think? In short, eye candy for the desktop. Such as Compiz, > Conky (Samurize clone), etc. > > -As of now, there is no practical way of transporting large amounts of data > (movies, MP3, etc) to friends, i.e. not possible to use an USB memory stick. > My friends uses Windows. Hence, FAT32 drivers or NTFS drivers are needed. > And both of the drivers have minisculous performance, a few 100 KB/sec. No > useable. It is not possible to transport much data with OpenSolaris, as of > now. File system issue. This also hurts VirtualBox USB devices. > > -Codecs. I know some codecs are available, but the new switcher doesnt know > they exist or how to get them. > > -Some more packages in IPS. Updated Wine with Boomer support. > > But, I think you SUN guys are doing a splendid job with the best OS. :o) I > wish you lots of beer and sex. > -- > 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/20090804/de3a4ca2/attachment.html>
