On Tuesday 19 February 2008 15:06:42 Ken Mays 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. > > Euan, > Multimedia on Solaris is well supported as it was about 3-4 years > ago. Not as up-to-date as the latest Ubuntu distros, depending if > you use Nexenta or not, but you can play DVDs, play FOSS 3D games, > and listen to various audio playbacks. Some things require > licensing, or self compilation or packages, and other things > require a bit of time and patience. Recently the OpenGL 3D > component was fixed so now things like 3D screensavers and game > development/porting are very possible wit Indiana. > > Indiana DP2 is not equal to Ubuntu 8.04 yet - but it can get there > with some elbow greasing and user knowledge. > > The main thing is providing basic tools for kiosks, internet cafes, > students and business people on the road. We need things like a > decent localisation and accessibility infrastructure while also > having office productivity suites (OpenOffice) during Live-CD mode. > Basically, Ubuntu 8.04 is a good example on what Indiana DP 2 could > achieve currently and advance from there. The latest Indiana DP 2 > official release almost got it right - minus a few bugs and space > concerns. > > Will Indiana be good for desktop computing? Sure. I'd think about > as good as the Live-CD of Ubuntu 8.04 is today. Just give it time > to mature. > > ~ Ken Mays > --
what is seriously lacking (totally inexistent) is support for analog and digital TV cards. I'm looking forward for driver-domain xen just to access my DVB pci cards using a linux domain. I'm not able to write drivers, but if someone ports (or writes) them from scratch I'll port mplayer and dvbtools. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
