Dear: List;
I figured I would inquire about a few items as it relates to OpenIndiana, first
off I would like to say keep up the good work. I installed OI on a spare hard
drive and found it as usable as I remember Opensolaris which I guess it is
mostly at the moment. It replaced a copy of OpenSuse and I look forward to
getting the bugs worked out.
Another reason for this post was I am not receiving the list mail in digest
form
and this is somewhat of a test to see if I am getting blocked, or my ISP is
blocking it as spam which might be a possibility.
I don't know if this is being discussed or already has a document wiki, or
place
but it would be nice to have a basic desktop howto manual. Something
discussing
the installment of basic desktop packages such as mplayer, and vlc and the
other
various codecs without having to rely on Fluendo.
It would also be nice if Illumos, and OpenIndiana are going to start a hardware
database, or at least consider newer developments. Something that might start
off as a basic spread sheet but with working hardware. It might reference
something like sun's old HCL which I found to work well but might not due to
future changes in the projects. At the moment I have three pieces of hardware
that are listed in the HCL, but are not supported or at least not indirectly
supported. One was an old envy sound card, which had chipset support but for
some reason never did work properly. One is a SysKonnect pci-e network card
that the supplied vendor drivers failed to install on the IPS system. Last one
is a 1394 firewire attached Epson scanner that for some reason due to the
nature
of 1394 support on Solaris or poor sane support fails to be recognized.
I must say that the scanner did not work under OpenSuse except in command line
mode due to all the backends and other stuff. It also doesn't work in windows
as
Epson failed to update drivers so really is not a big deal. Which is kind of
funny, as the reason I am using firewire was a usb bug in the sane Epson
drivers
that gave people problems under Gnu/Linux.
But if I were to purchase a newer scanner I would like it to be supported as I
then know I haven't wasted my money. The same goes for motherboards and
external drives, if I know something works I will buy from the list. But since
I was burned by the HCL on the sound card and network card I usually think
twice.
I know that it might take years, and even then it might not come near the
support they have on other operating systems. But having hardware in a few
categories working would be useful even if some restrictions occur.
I would even be willing to help write such a howto or contribute to such a wiki
category if it helps others.
Thanks,
RB
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