Monday October 16, 2006

Tamarack

Coming soon to a Solaris Express build near you is an exciting new project called Tamarack. The project name is taken from the road on which one of the team members has a mountain cabin and the logo is inspired by its namesake restaurant and casino in Reno, which is not surprising when the release vehicle is codenamed Nevada!
For several years and multiple releases, Solaris has had a sub-par user experience with removable media and hotpluggable devices compared to competetive desktop environments. The solution was incomplete, complex, and did not integrate with the desktop.

Enter Tamarack!

Whether it is a memory stick or a secure digital device, a digital camera or an IPod, a music CD or a blank DVD-ROM media, Tamarack seamlessly

integrates with the desktop to bring a significantly enhanced user experience compared to previous releases of Solaris. More importantly, Tamarack does this via a modern, open source and extensible framework, HAL.

Getting Tamarack

For those of you running OpenSolaris and interested in trying out these features, watch for the announcement of the Build 54 release! Add Vermillion (build 54 and higher) and you are good to go! Don't forget to send us feedback, because there's more good stuff to come! We expect to extend the HAL framework to support power management and networking. We are also thinking about the possibility of having Bluetooth driver functionality integrated.

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