[oi-dev] illumos based OpenIndiana DVD

[Andrzej Szeszo]

The new image, which includes updated desktop wallpaper can be found here:

http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/148/oi-dev-148a-x86-20110223-1.iso

It installs ok, etc.

Andrzej

On 02/22/11 04:28 PM, Andrzej Szeszo wrote:
> I have actually new iso and repo on the way. With better illumos 
> branding and version number reverted from 148.0.1 back to 148 as 
> suggested by Albert.
>
> There is no illumos logo anywhere on the desktop at the moment.
>
> I have put "powered by illumos" label in /etc/release, /etc/motd. Also 
> kernel bootmsg contains illumos changeset id.
>
> It will be clear that the system is powered by illumos code.
>
> Andrzej
>
>
> On 02/22/11 15:38, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> Thanks everyone for putting in this effort.
>>
>> I need to locate someone who can produce media.  I'm thinking I need to
>> produce a few hundred copies at least -- maybe even a thousand.
>> Opinions?
>>
>> Also, do we have any artwork to put on the media and/or the sleeves?
>> (Ideally with the new illumos logo?)
>>
>> I've not booted the new media *yet* but will do so today.  Is the new
>> illumos logo ("powered by") used on the OI desktop as well?
>>
>>     - Garrett
>>
>> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 06:27 -0800, ken mays wrote:
>>> Andrzej,
>>>
>>>
>>> As mentioned, your OI_148a Live DVD seems fine and better than the 
>>> original OI_148 DVD in concept.
>>>
>>> Having it available for SCALE online (check net load handling) and 
>>> on spare
>>> DVDs (mass copy on location!) seems to be on mark as I have 
>>> thoroughly reviewed the OI_148a Live DVD for basic workstation use. 
>>> Also, with an installation and Nvidia 270.26 driver, most users can 
>>> use the 3D desktop capabilities very well. I already listed basic 
>>> bugs I've observed elsewhere.
>>>
>>> As for performance scalability under load testing with the Illumos 
>>> kernel, I did comment on the recent Phoronix review with the older 
>>> OI_148 distro.
>>>
>>> See: 
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=multi_os_scaling&num=1
>>>
>>> So, I consider this just things to review in the future. Right now 
>>> the Live DVD is 'working fine' and the Perl 5.10.1 migration should 
>>> come next.
>>>
>>> There are still a few days to get some more tweaks done. No major 
>>> showstoppers at the moment!
>>>
>>> ~ Ken Mays
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --- On Tue, 2/22/11, Andrzej Szeszo<aszeszo at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Andrzej Szeszo<aszeszo at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [oi-dev] illumos based OpenIndiana DVD
>>>> To: oi-dev at openindiana.org
>>>> Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 5:42 AM
>>>> On 02/21/11 20:25, Guido Berhoerster
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> * Alasdair Lumsden<alasdairrr at gmail.com>
>>>> [2011-02-21 20:51]:
>>>>>> On 21 Feb 2011, at 19:48, Guido Berhoerster
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Great stuff. What are we going to do about
>>>> perl-584, are you
>>>>>>> going to use packages from an older build?
>>>>>>> Also how do we want to handle this in general,
>>>> just ship perl-584
>>>>>>> from an older ONNV for maintaining backwards
>>>> compatibility and
>>>>>>> switch all consolidations to perl-510?  I
>>>> have a JDS build
>>>>>>> against perl-510 ready but AFAIK XNV and SFW
>>>> are still being
>>>>>>> worked on.
>>>>>> I think we'll need to do 1 final perl-584 package
>>>> at a higher build number, which no longer delivers the
>>>> /usr/bin/perl symlink (plus potentially others if there are
>>>> any), so that the perl 510 package can provide that
>>>> instead.
>>>>>> That way when people upgrade, /usr/bin/perl gets
>>>> removed then re-added.
>>>>>> Does that sound feasible?
>>>>> Sure, that's what we had planned. But do we make that
>>>> move now
>>>>> for the demo CD? Also, should we only provide perl-584
>>>> by itself
>>>>> or variants of the perl modules in JDS and SFW as
>>>> well?
>>>> I think it is a bit too late for the change to appear on
>>>> the demo CD. Not even 100% sure if we will get the CD out on
>>>> time in its current state.
>>>>
>>>> The system installed by the CD will be using 
>>>> http://pkg.openindiana.org/dev repository by default
>>>> anyway. We obviously can update it at a later time with all
>>>> the perl584 changes.
>>>>
>>>> Andrzej
>>>>
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