[oi-dev] What comes next?

[ken mays]

The desktop for OpenSolaris is not an issue nor major desktop apps. Most of the major apps were ported and some specs live in SFE. 

You can look at distros like Shillix or even Solaris 11. Do you need Xorg 7.7 or Xfce 4.10? What specific hardware do you have and what does not work?

OpenSolaris distro was always a CORE OS distro in which most bloatware apps was moved to IPS. So X11 is the main thing to support besides parts of JDS. 
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On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 4:38 AM EDT Damian Wojslaw wrote:

>Hello
>
>So, all you OpenIndiana developers, whom I admire, what comes next? :)
>I've seen few people declaring they would like to help, I think packaging was mostly mentioned.
>Please, let me ask few questions.
>
>1. Is this link still valid? http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/IPS+Knowledge
>2. What would those people need to do, so start maintaining a package? Is there a process,
>like in Debian, a person has to go through before they are given package maintaining duty?
>3. Is the development sof OI till going at all?
>
>4. What you, OI developers, would want from this distribution? What your priorities are?
>
>
>I'd like to reiterate what I've said many times in the past, when OpenSolaris was still a live distribution.
>If illumos wants to become widespread, it needs desktop distribution, a usable one, so that people can use it,
>play with it and learn it. This is how Linux crept into datacenters, because people like me installed it as their
>hobby desktop, to look at X, to look at FVWM, to use pine and share modem connection at home. And then,
>it was natural to start exim and apache on it. And then people like me became admins, CIOs and CTOs and
>started to use what they knew and liked. And I'd love illumos to become the system people can install as their
>hobby desktop.
>
>Thank you.
>
>Damian Wojsław
>
>
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