Hi Tim, I am one of the guys that tries to manage SWOSUG ( Sweden user group )
One requirement that I have identified ( trough trying to help people booting opensolaris on osol-help ) is more of an administrative nature. It is that the present hardware compatability list on Bigadmin/hcl does not tell people what they need to know. As PC's are a new model every three months , the users dont need a list of which, now unavailable, PC-models that worked in the past. What is needed is a list of which Drivers and Chipssets that is available , so that the user can select hardware components from that list when assembling a rig to run OpenSolaris. The best example of this approach that I know of is FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html Yes this requires more knowledge from the user than simply buying an appoved PC-model. But it gives the user the ability to choose hardware much more intelligently than what is possible with the present scheme. Second Requierment that I have is: Ability for OpenSolaris to support Sun Ray. Third Requirement : ATAPI ( DVD ) support for nv-sata driver ( SATA on nvidia Nforce ) must be done . Fourth Requirement : A stumbeling stone for new users today is the incompleteness of /etc/driver-aliases list of PCI-id's . An easier to use reporting process for additions to /etc/driver-aliases should be put in place. Lots of problems are being reported because solaris does not find a perfectly useable chipset. Fifth Requirement : Nvidia Nforce MCP78 Support for AMD Phenom with Hypertransport 3 socket AM2+ I have not been able to find any info on this so I assume it is not done yet. I hope I am wrong. ------------------------- I will probably be to think of more in awhile. Thanks for giving us this opportunity to input requirements. Regards //Lar s This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
