[oi-dev] Resignation as OI Lead

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Milan Jurik wrote:
>>
>> Current OpenIndiana is satisfactory for most things that I need and
>> it
>> only lacks ready-made packages for Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice,
>> and the available Flash plugin.  If detractors do not get in the way,
>> forward progress will resume, and these packages will surely appear.
>
> personally I use tarballs published on ftp.mozilla.org for Firefox, they
> work very well. I am using even beta releases, updating through "mar"
> files.
>
> For OpenOffice, there is version 3.4.0 available:

Yes, it is primarily a matter of convenience that it be possible to 
install these packages via a package manager.

Bob
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