Matthew Gardiner wrote:
On Monday 22 May 2006 21:13, you wrote:
Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you expect a nice OS with a rich set of features, Solaris is the
right way to go but then you should not expect everything from the GUI
at the same time. Once the growing acceptance of Solaris did attract
more developers, you will see the GUI features too, but I expect this
to happen in 1-3 years and not on 2006.
I don't expect everything to be available via a GUI, but I do expect that
there is a decent printer configuration tool; that SUN get with the
programme, lynch that POS that is lp, and replace it with something from
the 21st century, namely CUPS coupled with GIMP-Print and friends.
Did you ever try JDS?
It includes what you are looking for.
Ah, the wonderful, buggy, slow and problem prone Java based printer manager -
no thank you.
It might also help if SUN updated their drivers as well.
Also, it would be nice to be able to sync up music - I mean, I know
this 'ipod' thing is a bit of a 'niche market' - I mean, there are only a few
million of them out there, but if SUN programmers could spare a bit of time
from their, well, what ever they do, could they atleast *attempt* to provide
a way for this to be a possibility.
gtkpod ?
Which does run on Solaris:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/darren?entry=gtkpod_use_of_df_1
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Darren J Moffat
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