On 30 May 2008, at 06:20, Christian Ortiz wrote:

> I'd like to see things like these.

Well, the good news is, we've already been working on most of them for  
some time :)

> More packages in the pkg.opensolaris.org repo, like games,  
> libraries, mono and wine.
>
> The applications drive the OS, OpenSolaris needs a lot of packages  
> and in binary form, i don't have time to build every package and  
> it's dependencies.

This is a priority for Sun, too.  In the meantime, don't forget to  
check out the sunfreeware and blastwave IPS repositories as well.

> OpenSound integration

Coming soon, currently being ARC'ed IIRC. 
<http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opensound/ 
 >

> A ndiswrapper like linux where i don't have to compile a kernel  
> module, just run a command with the driver location.

<http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/ndis/>

> better laptop suport by default. Things like acpi, the battery and  
> powernow without using frikit. And suspend support.

Coming soon.  <http://opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/power/>

> A port of the gnome-network-manager


We're doing NWAM instead, which is more suitable for Solaris.
<http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/>

Cheeri,
Calum.

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