[oi-dev] What comes next?

[Nick Zivkovic]

Other distros will better serve those who need a very, very lean
system. OI is meant to facilitate usable desktop variant of Illumos
for power users who need a better hobby than linux administration ;)

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:19 AM, ken mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> 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:
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>>Hello
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>>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.
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>>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?
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>>4. What you, OI developers, would want from this distribution? What your priorities are?
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>>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.
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>>Thank you.
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>>Damian Wojsław
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