Project Indiana, Sun Microsystems' Linux-like OpenSolaris effort, will begin shipping to developers before the end of October, the company announced Oct. 15 at its open-source summit press event here. The developer release will include Image Packaging System, a new package manager slated for inclusion in the next version of Solaris, but won't be back-ported to Solaris 10, the most recent version to ship, said Ian Murdock, Sun's chief operating systems platform strategist, in an address to the media. All of the technology developed under Project Indiana will be delivered through OpenSolaris going forward, he said. The full release is expected in March. More here.
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Member since:2005-07-06
What type of card is it - and have you emailed the author of the driver to see if they're willing to submit the driver to the OpenSolaris consolidation?
Sitting on this forum complaining about the lack of driver support isn't going to do anything - its a community effort. Yes, Sun contributes but they have limited resources and must focus in those areas which yield their customers benefit and pay for themselves.
Yes, there are developers in Sun, whom in their own time, contribute to Solaris, but at the end of the day, it is still an opensource project in its infancy.
Member since:2006-02-01
The drivers are here:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/
(bfe is needed)
as suggested by sun:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/systems/details/2046.html
I will e-mail the author then.
Member since:
2006-02-01
I'm interested but I think that driver support is still lacking.
I installed SolarisExpressDeveloperEdition 9/07 on my DellInspiron6400 and the driver for my network card was not detected.
I'd have to install a third-part driver located somewhere at some website, which is a no-sense because the network card doesn't work so I could not download it...
So yes Gnome 2.20, compiz, eye-candy, etc, but I'd prefer also better driver support.