On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 21:30 +0800, Giles Turner wrote: > > 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.
Regarding Photo Editing for end users, 2.4 apparently fixes up the current pig-ugly GUI with something that resembles sanity in regards to ease of use. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
