[OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

[Gregory Youngblood]

I was thinking in terms of the installer presenting choices. If no choices are selected then the minimal installation with no extras layers gets installed. you might also call this expert mode as only the basics are there and anything else had to be installed.

The installer might ask a question such as: what is the purpose of this machine? Remote/headless server, local server (full gui), local workstation (full gui), or text only workstation. that could set defaults, with perhaps advanced tab letting each "layer" to be manually selected or not.

i also see I left out gui-workstation layer.

greg

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From: "Dmitry G. Kozhinov" <dima at desktopfay.com>
Date: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 3:07 pm
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch
To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>

Glad you have mentioned gui-server - this is what I need :)

About the idea - dual feelings about it. From one point of view, this is 
right (incredibly right). From the other side, this limits new users to 
the Unix command-line philosophy (which is the dinosaur age), and would 
make this great OS a niche OS, like DragonFlyBSD.

Imagine a new user(s). They should learn all those command-line spells. 
Would they?

On 18.01.2011 2:10, Gregory Youngblood wrote:
> maybe the foundation could be a minimal text only base install, plus ssh, the minimum needed to get the system up. then on top of that you can add one or more of server, gui-server, or workstation layers.

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