[OpenIndiana-discuss] XStreamOS distro available

[Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz]

Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> Hi, sure boot environments are there, inside illumos kernel.
> About networked installtion, probably this is a different thing.
> If I well remember, there was some kind of software you may add to Solaris 10 to make it a
> network installation server, do you think it's still available and usable with illumos?

Well, my 2 cents,

I haven't yet looked at your distribution, but I'll surely do.

What I expect from a Illumos distribution is something like a subset of openindiana.

I'm a SunOS user for almost 20 years. We use it for infrastructure (DNS, mail, DHCP, LDAP, web ...) servers. We usually 
compile ourselves these applications (sendmail, bind, apache, php, mysql, ... and even gcc), so we need just a little 
more than a nude OS.

Sometimes it may be hard to define what we can compile what what we rely on. Mainly on libraries. We can rely on stable 
(or quite stable libraries) such as libxml and so, but we use a home compiled version of openssl, as it's frequently 
updated after security vulnerabilities.

A network installation server is near a must. There were jumpstart and AI. When you have some dozen of servers to 
install, an automated way to install from network is a MUST, in order to have homogeneous installations.

A GUI installer is a plus for me, but a must for people having to install just a hand of physical computers.

A desktop ??? Almost all current servers (e.g. PowerEdge line of Dell servers) have a graphics card. I don't need to run 
office or user applications, but it's a good idea to have a windowing environment to run some terminal windows on the 
console when you have problems which you can't solve with remote access. Just a way to have multiple terminal windows is 
enough. A gnome environnment without office applications is a plus, but not necessary.

Well, this are my needs. Other people may surely think differently,

Best regards,

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> Da: Jim Klimov
> A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
> Data: 20 settembre 2012 13.50.50 CEST
> Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XStreamOS distro available
> On 2012-09-20 08:40, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> Hi,
> this is a bare distribution featuring just the illumos kernel and dependency packages,
> just the minimum requirements + gcc.
> Is this your take at becoming the reference distro for development
> and lightweight-footprint testing of development for illumos-gate? ;)
> I am not sure if the distro for such dev/test purposes (or a server)
> needs to be cluttered with GUI installer and desktop as others suggest;
> at most - as optional packages.
> If so, does it also support boot environments and perhaps networked
> installation (over PXE or the likes)? Some sort of automated installer
> to initialize racks of servers or new test VMs with a new kernel build -
> now that would be a useful feature for the purpose.
> My 2c,
> //Jim
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