Thursday March 17, 2005
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Thursday March 17, 2005
Responding to another Alan's blog comments
Just noticed the discussion and questions in the comments Alan Hargreave's blog about Solaris Express 2/05 - I started typing this in as a response there, but it got so long, I figured I'd just put it here and leave a trackback link there.
- Does the SPARC version of Solaris 10 get X.Org or does it still use XSun?
- Yes, SPARC is still on Xsun, since Xorg includes no driver modules for SPARC graphics cards. We're looking into various ways to solve this, but it will take some time.
- Sun is lagging behind several X.org releases...
- Our Xorg server is completely up to date with the latest Xorg release (well, this Solaris Express is X11R6.8.2 Release Candidate 2 - the final release of X11R6.8.2 is out now, and has been integrated to a later build of Solaris so it should be in future Solaris Express releases). The rest of the X Window System in Solaris is mostly from X11R6.6 and we're working over time to bring it up to newer versions, but for most of it outside the X server, there's little user noticable changes.
- again no Xprint server with OpenGL capabilities in Solaris Express
- No, we don't have OpenGL support in Xprint, because as far as I can tell, not one single customer has ever suggested it's something they'd even be remotely interested in us supporting, and it's not something we've thought is likely to be useful to many people. Your posts on this is the first I knew anyone had any use for it. Eventually we'll move to Xprint based from the latest Xorg tree, and perhaps we'll get it then - if you need it earlier, get your sales rep, tech support contact, ISV relations contact, etc. to submit an RFE or just explain to me why this is so useful to enough customers that we should prioritize it over all the other things we need to work on in the X Window System on Solaris. Like most people, there's a lot more things we could do than the number of hours in the day allow us to do, and we're still working through the ones that will be useful to thousands more people than OpenGL in Xprint - like OpenGL in Xorg itself and better Xorg configuration tools. This is what OpenSolaris should help with in the future, as users with special needs will be able to make the changes they want and work with Sun to get them into future Solaris releases.
Posted at 11:16PM Mar 17, 2005 by Alan Coopersmith in Solaris | Comments[6]
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