----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan DuBoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Alan DuBoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "John Martinez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:54 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Matthew Gardiner wrote: > >> x86 being around for over 2 years and still no movement by Sun to improve >> the user experience in either hardware support or software availability. > > First of all, Solaris on x86 has been around for about 15 years, so I'm > not sure of the 2 years you mention, it's almost 3 years since S10 has > shipped. I'm talking about 'official support' for Solaris on x86 - and if you read it (which I'm not sure you did), you would have noticed "over two years" - so that might actually mean two, three, four, five or even ten years! > Second, while it might not seem like a lot, the desktop has been getting > some enhancements, and more and more support for the hardware continue to > go back. Which is simply based off grabbing opensource code and porting it - if that is all Solaris going to be, a leeching agent for opensource code, it has no benefits over Linux or FreeBSD. When am I going to see official support for devices like minidisc players, ipod with iTunes from Apple? > Things like basic power management, wifi drivers, and JDS itself is the > first real change from CDE as the desktop. This is really user experience > oriented. 'basic power management' is being nice given my experience so far, battery life dropping to 1/2 within a space of 30minutes. > I don't know what you mean by "no movement", but from my view Solaris on > x86 has not only improved, it's leading in some areas (DTrace, Zones, SMF, > ZFS, etc...). Which are all server orientated. Is Sun *truely* interested in the desktop - because all signals say they're not. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
