On Feb 18, 2008 11:38 AM, Tim Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2008, at 8:51 AM, Bob Netherton wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 08:32 -0800, Euan Thoms wrote: > >> I ask this because it sucks in Solaris 10 and even Nevada / > >> OpenSolaris builds that i have trialled to date. > > > > This is simply not true. OK, perhaps if you are looking for > > everything > > to be nicely integrated at install time and supported by the vendor > > (Sun), but there is no gap between what we can do in Solaris and what > > the Ubuntu guys can do. And the method in obtaining the key pieces > > is > > quite similar - grab it from a community repository (my personal > > preference is blastwave.org). > > Have you used a recent Ubuntu? A lot of this stuff Just Works out of > the box. Plug in a digital camera. Plug in a scanner. Right-click > on a .tiff or .avi. I agree that in principle the same stuff is > probably more-or-less available if you understand what the pieces are > that you're missing and how to get them. But it's not the same. -Tim
Have you used Solaris Express lately? It works much the same there too. For example, I plugged in my Canon EOS 30D the other night and it "just worked." -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
