Here is my wishlist for Solaris features, in order of importance: 1. Ability to read/write NTFS filesystems reliably. I'm a Windows guy, and that's not about to change any time soon. I've used Solaris at work and would much prefer it if all my systems were running it, but I have to be realistic. I was with one company for 4.5 years and we had an E450 that did not crash *once* during that time. That's how computers should work.
2. Suspend to disk. I use this all the time - ever since Windows 2000 on an old desktop machine. I always "hibernate" my Windows PC instead of doing a full shutdown. It greatly speeds up starting the PC, especially on laptops which have slower hard disks. 3=. Working audio. Having the volume control come up on the screen when I roll the thumbwheel would be nice, but isn't critical. 3=. Audio codecs and encrypted DVD support available from a package repository. I realise Sun is probably not going to do this, but I use mp3 and un-encrypted wma files all the time. I hope to see someone deliver this. (Actually I buy encrypted wmas and strip the DRM). 4. A proper RealPlayer like you get on Windows. I've used RealPlayer since version 2 because it is the best I have come across. The UNIX version is hopeless by comparison. Please REAL - port the full player to UNIX! I know about Songbird and could probably use that if it could access the relevant codecs. 5. The ability to use VMware on an OpenSolaris host. VMware is much faster that VirtualBox and Xen on my systems. Some of these are more realistic that others. Real and VMware are unlikely to port their apps to Solaris, but it would be nice if they did. ;-) Cheers Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
