> An update for the sake of documenting this for the > rest of the community, the new Samsung K3 which I > bought relies on libmtp: > http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/ unfortunately we don't > yet have libmtp on Solaris :( > > I'll have a go at compiling this over the weekend if > I get the time or take the easy path and get her onto > Ubuntu. > > It's a shame the Zen was 'too chunky' > > These are the sought of use case scenario's we'll > have to start thinking about if we want Project > Indiana to succeed...
Presuming the target audience includes the just wants everything to work out of the box home user crowd. Or maybe the must have all bells and whistles that any popular Linux distro has crowd. _Maybe_ there's a case for the second. But while home users may possibly also represent mindshare, I wonder if they're significant among _currently_ paying customers? Given limited resources, I'd rather see them used for drivers, X server, power management, suspend/resume, and so on, rather than on additional user-candy not-at-work sorts of apps. That is, some people may take pictures or even compose music for a living, but I bet very few need to (for example) sync their MP3 player as part of their job (or anything else that's likely to have them paying for hardware or support anytime soon). And I find it hard to see how not having such a capability out of the box would lose any present or future opportunities to grow [Open]Solaris, or make money for Sun, or anything else except make those that wanted that capability happy, which past a certain point is IMO _their_ responsibility. Of course, I do have a bag of coal somewhere to hand out along with my "bah, humbug!" This message posted from opensolaris.org
