I want to buy a new laptop but I'm afraid to buy one which is incompatible with opensolaris. My dream is to settle on using solaris os for my day-to-day desktop usage and for application development after project Indiana released the first version. Indiana has no bootable product yet but I want to buy a laptop now. Then I thought, if there only was a bootable CD that when booted specially on a laptop, it will report whether the PC or laptop is compatible with OpenSolaris; and if not, it will report what those incompatible hardware components are. It should not only report the incompatible hardware components but also SUGGEST a compatible one.
With this utility, we can know before buying if the laptop will run our favorite solaris distro. It's not only a good utility for the user but for the laptop vendors also. Imagine Dell or HP selling their laptop on their website with a "This laptop is OpenSolaris-compatible" mark. And other vendors will follow and start to sell their opensolaris-compatible laptops too. This will boost the opensolaris adoption. And oh wait, there's more. Imagine this message when I booted the "opensolaris hardware compatibility test" on my laptop: <snippet> Creative webcam model [EMAIL PROTECTED]& is not compatible with OpenSolaris because there's no driver found. But the following similar hardware is compatible: 1. Philips Webcam model %^$&*$ 2. Logitect QuickCam model $%^#& </snippet> If you were from the Creative Technology Ltd. and you read this message? You don't want to see your competitors attracting your consumers that way, do you? And knowing that the OpenSolaris has already some market share, the next thing you would probably do is tell your programmers to program your webcam's driver for OpenSolaris and submit them to opensolaris.org. The result of this is more and more and more drivers for opensolaris distros... WOW, that's nice! ========= OK, enough justification... I just want to buy a laptop now. Is the "OpenSolaris hardware compatibility test on a bootable CD" possible?
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