On 01/04/07, Stephen Lau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 05:22:43PM +1200, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
Hi,
Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it
would be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer
needs to solutions that exist for Solaris.
Case in point, [1]https://shop.fluendo.com/ who sell currently
support
for WMA/WMV/Mp3 playback for Solaris x86/SPARC - and from what I
understand, the compresssion side of the equation will be arriving
soon.
Not only will this help first time users in regars to helping them
resolve support issues relating to multimedia, it'll also provide a
good platform in which Solaris solution provides can directly contact
customers and vice versa, without needing to navigate the beaucracy
that is Sun - if this provides free publicitly, hopefully it'll
entice
more vendors to come on board and provide Solaris editions of their
software.
What does everyone else thing?
+1, this would be a great idea. It'd be handy to have links to various
software and hardware things, i.e.:
I want mp3 playback - go to Fluendo (or a link to a walkthrough on
build gstreamer/lame backend)
I want to get my Yukon NIC up - go to Marvell's site.
True - and the good part, free marketing for third party vendors; it'll
kinda like a 'thank you for sticking with us' to those vendors who have
decided to stick with providing support for Solaris.
Fluendo will be an interesting situation in that, if Solaris does have
WMA/WMV/etc support, it should make, in theory, moving customers from
Windows desktops to Solaris desktops (be them stand alone or in a Sunray
formation) - although it isn't the ideal circumstance of supporting a
proprietary CODEC, its all about providing the bridge of compatibility then
provide resources, through the hardware compatibility area, for migration.
For example; someone owns an mp3 player, they use WMA/WMV - the ideal way to
get them off that an onto ogg, is to show what devices out there support ogg
file format, so when they do upgrade, they know there is a product out there
which is suitable to Solaris.
Same can go for graphics card; ATI refusal to provide drivers gives us a
good opportunity to promote the use of NVIDIA and Intel based solutions for
OpenSolaris, and hopefully with this drive, in return there will be
increased sales for those two organisations which results in greater support
by Nvidia and Intel for the OpenSolaris community by way of regular driver
updates and so forth.
Hopefully if there is enough people refusing to purchase Ati/AMD products
not only in the OpenSolaris community but those in the *BSD and Linux
community as well, it will send a clear message of our great displeasure at
their lack of willingness to come to the negotiating table.
Matt
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