Euan Thoms wrote: > 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. > http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Features.php3 should solve your pixma problem :) > 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. > I find that there is a lot of software avalable on solaris. There are multiple porting projects you can choose from, like sunfreeware, blastwave and SFE. All of them will soon be available via Ipkg. > 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 ;-( > see http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/p_Features.php3 ;) > 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 >
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