Kapil Aggarwal wrote:
> Well...I guess a lot has changed in the last 10 years. Video cards are as 
> cheap as a cable now. And a GUI doesn't necassarily have to be tied to video, 
> it can be a web console. 
>
> But I digress. My point is that in TODAY's world, I'm flabbergasted as to why 
> would you have a new release of an O/S (Opensolaris 2008.05..with a lot of 
> fanfare) which has such abysmal support for 
> hardware/video/keyboard/network/storage controllers..especially int eh 
> consumer market. Or should I take it that Sun isn't really targeting the 
> consumer market with these new releases?
>   

How about we walk before we run? :) These things take time. For an 
initial release, though, OpenSolaris 2008.05 has pretty darn good 
support -- certainly far from abysmal -- that's for sure. Also, we are 
not targeting consumers (as defined by people who know nothing about 
computers), but instead we are looking to engage more developers and 
users and students who are more familiar this stuff. Perhaps general 
consumers in the future, who knows ... :)

Jim

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