Its worth bearing in mind that the HTMl format will eventually be
available through FF as a default format, although if you wish to be
creative it would be great develope VLC as
the default player in the browser.Bear in mind many programs will
eventually be available through wine or the industries gradual migration
to cloud services.Clearly Oi could
be a great cloud desktop on a USB.
For your consideration:
Support for several programs that I really enjoy has been discontinued for the
OpenSolaris / OpenIndiana platforms. It won't be long
before FireFox 3.6.12 becomes unacceptably obsolete ... and OpenOffice 3.1.0
... and Thunderbird 3.2.4 ... and Adobe Flash ... and ??
The unfortunate result is that with no continuing support from software
providers, OpenIndiana is gradually drifting toward obsolescence.
Please know that my understanding of programming is basic and mostly
conceptional and I have just about zero experience. So,
what I am about to offer might be based on a misunderstanding of what would be
in involved.
Would it be possible to modify some select segments of OpenIndiana code to
accommodate programs that are tailored to run on one
of the major Linux Distributions? And, most importantly, while making the necessary
alterations, do not effect the "look and feel" of
OpenIndiana (as OpenIndiana has not changed the 'look and feel" of OpenSolaris).
If I correctly understand the nature of the GNU General Public License, the
Free Software Foundation, copyleft licensing, etc., I believe
it should be possible to copy and adapt some of the pertinent source code
segments and libraries directly from the Linux kernel and/or
from a major Linux distribution. I imagine that the required modifications
would probably not be as extensive as designing that support
rom scratch ... though it would certainly be more involved than a simple "copy and
paste".
If (as example) Debian source code is fairly close to OpenIndiana, with regard
to support for a specific web-browser (let's say FireFox),
then the program, its libraries, and updates (as run on Debian or Debian
derived LinuxOS) could be applied directly and unchanged to
OpenIndiana. Thus, a copy of the FireFox program for Debian (and its updates)
would work as cleanly on OpenIndiana as they do on any
of the Debian derived Linux OS (Ubuntu, Linspire, Knoppix, etc).
If the above can be acomplished, a "Debian flavored" copy of a program and
updates (again if I correctly understand GNU GPL licensing)
could be added to the OpenIndiana repository.
I regret that I don't have the knowledge or talent to provide a real and
working illustration, but I am sure that a more knowledgeable person
will understand what I propose.
If OpenIndiana cannot be updated and kept current, how long before a user is
forced to change operating system to keep up with new
program features and new hardware or to view new (and even the 'not so new'
multimedia formats)?
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