[oi-dev] Post 151 development

[Francois Dion]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz
<jose.marcio.mc at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
>
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> ken mays wrote:
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>> 1. Is the latest JDS build something wanted by OI users and developers?
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>> This was one of the issues brought up, yet are we looking for a build of
>> the most latest bits? This was done a few months ago for a build kit ISO  so
>> the work can transfer over.
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>> This way oi developers and users can test and review the latest JDS build
>> and msy help redolve some issues in modernization of the distro as mentioned
>> elsewhere.
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>
> Although me too I'm one of those dinosaurs ...
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> My needs are just a OS stable enough to run on a infrastructure server.
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> Although I understand people wanting a full operational desktop environment,
> I don't care too much. For me (but it's just a personnal opinion), I want a
> openindiana environment just to be able to have a multi-windowing system (in
> fact many terminals on the console).
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> For the moment, I work on two workstations, one running an old version of
> Solaris and the other running Linux (a laptop), but I surely can switch one
> of them to OpenIndiana.
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> All this to say that, IMHO, it's important to release, as soon as possible,
> a stable "server version". A stable desktop version may be released later.
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> It's not a problem for me to add another "desktop based workstation" to work
> on and test.
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> Regards,
>
>
> José-Marcio

Not sure if anybody noticed, but OI 151 was released 1 year ago. Been
running OI 151 as my primary desktop for 365 days. The definition of
stable is relative, I'd say...

Francois