> > Just yesterday I created a rather random poll for > what things they'd > > like to see in the package repository - > > > > http://forums.opensolaris.com/forum.jspa?forumID=6 > > > > Go vote! > > Voted MPlayer, since multimedia's important to > regular users. Would have > been happier if there were a completish set of > gstreamer codecs as > option. To get things like Songbird, Totem and its > Mozilla plugin > working out of the box with most stuff. > > -mg
Yes, MPlayer is very desirable, but it must be looked at from two different perspectives. I use 2008.05 both at home, at work, and on the road. MPlayer/media is important for home users, but I have very little need for it at work. The key issue then boils down to whether we intend OpenSolaris to be for "regular users" or for business users. I tend to favor the latter, though I probably would still vote for MPlayer. On the road (i.e., using OpenSolaris on notebooks), then it is a very different story. Power saving, or more specifically suspend-to-ram (STR) or hibernation, becomes a critical factor. I have a ThinkPad R61i with 2GB RAM etc. Until last Friday, neither Solaris nor Linux does a competent STR job. However, SuSE 11.0 GM, which came out last Friday, seems to do even a better job regarding STR than Vista. As a result, I am switching to SuSE 11.0 "at least" for this notebook. Many on-the-road users will very likely make the same choice. If SuSE can do STR on c2d-based ThinkPads, I am pretty sure Solaris can do it, too. This is I believe a question of priority, but it is something that deserves to be carefully considered. This message posted from opensolaris.org
