How well supported is multimedia (mpeg, avi, wmv etc) going to be in project Indiana? I ask this because it sucks in Solaris 10 and even Nevada / OpenSolaris builds that i have trialled to date.
I am a big fan of Sun products and for the last 6 months I've been doing my best to move away from Windows, not just because I find Windows frustrating (fragmentation, viruses, pests, bad administrator friendlyness, being forced to upgrade to buggy replacements with little backward compatability etc...). But also because I believe they are a bad thing for the IT industry, impeding the growth of standards and protocols and open formats that allow fair play. At the moment I have Ubuntu on my desktop PCs because I got fed up trying to get simple things like mpeg video clips to play and my Canon PIXMA printer doesn't have a driver for Solaris etc. I'm really happy to see that this latest OpenSolaris is committed to making a user friendly desktop environment to match the worlds most advanced OS. "Synaptic package manager" style deployment makes a world of difference for the newbie like me. After all, why should Solaris be reserved for the server / enterprise market, why not make a desktop environment or similar quality to their server products. How extensive will the automated package management be compared to aptitude and yum? Will linux apps work on indiana? There's not a lot of software available for Solaris yet. How about driver support? Currently I don't know whether I can buy a modern photo printer and be sure it will work. I'm prepared to bin my Canon, don't think it will ever have solaris kernal driver ;-( Last but not least, will 3D graphics support be available for Solaris in the future, is it on the agenda or will it remain to be deamed unnecessary? I look forward to switching to Indiana in the future, hopefully it will be up the standard of modern linux distros soon. Respect to the guys working on OpenSolaris, I would help if I had the time and was clever enough! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
