[desktop-discuss] Re: SuSE Enterprise Desktop 10 reviews

[Alan Coopersmith]

Manish wrote:
> 5. Hardware accelerated graphics. No, XGL is not necessary. DRI would do for now.

DRI for Intel graphics chips (i915 DRI driver) should be here later this year,
with ATI Radeon following afterwards.

> 7. Something like HAL, or a port would do wonders.

HAL is currently a couple of builds away from integrating - it's coming in
as part of Tamarack:   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/tamarack/

> 8. A solid, reliable and native package management system.

pkgadd has been there for years - it's solid, reliable, and native,
just missing a lot of other functionality people want these days.

> 9. Implement better support for WiFi, Bluetooth, DigiCams etc.

Wifi is coming - see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/

> 11. Power management is almost nonexistent. Implement this!

Again, coming soon.   I've seen suspend-to-RAM working on the Ultra 20 AMD64
workstation - there's a lot of driver work needed though to make all the
drivers support it.

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