> It is the availability of software that makes or breaks a platform. Not > hardware, not OS technical superiority, not OS security, not ease of use.
Good one. If you are going to target the desktop, games is a must since OpenSolaris already offers enough to cover mundane users like word processing, Internet browsing and email. Maybe a new and separate set of stable interfaces for a desktop target will ease the development of software for OpenSolaris desktops after OpenSolaris gets a proper package management solution to handle updates from a repository. Given a set of stable desktop interfaces, Apple's download a file and that is also the process of installation would make it really easy for 'normal' users to install software. Right now Mac OS X has a stable interface which allows people to create software for Mac OS X without worrying at all about dependencies. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
