[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress

[Jim Oltman]

Have you considered in your graphical installer the option to choose a ZFS
Mirror for rpool?

What about packaging Chromium/Chrome?

It'd be amazing to get mplayer in there as well.

Thanks!!


On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 7:52 AM, <finid at linuxbsdos.com> wrote:

> Gabriele,
>
> A company-sponsored illumos desktop distribution is very welcome.
>
> Here are a few suggestions:
>
> 1. A graphical installer will make it a hit for new users. Users expect
> one on a modern desktop distribution. If you don't have a gui installer
> yet, check out PC-BSD's graphical installer.    Might be easier to port it
> than code one from scratch.
>
> 2. Let's shoot for complete out of the box "it just works." That means, I
> install it and start being productive without having to mess with
> configuration files and other manual configuration that should work by
> default. Think about those who do not want to learn how the OS works before
> they can send email or interface with their friends on social networks.
>
> 3. Excellent default physical and network security posture of the box.
>
> 4. Graphical tools that makes it easy for new users to make use of ZFS'
> excellent features.
>
> 5. On the app side, being able to choose between OpenOffice and LibeOffice
> is a good option, especially since their will be some feature differences.
> This is minor, but you might want to not bother about pdf readers. Firefox
> comes with a built-in PDF reader, which has rendered a standalone PDF
> reader obsolete.
>
> 6. LXDE sounds good for a desktop environment, but have you considered
> Cinnamon? It's one of the most popular ones we have around and because it's
> built atop GNOME 3 technologies, it's not very resource intensive.
>
> That should get us started.
>
> Looking forward to the first public release, but if "outsiders" to take a
> look at it before it hits the download mirrors, I'll be more than happy to
> take it for a spin.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> --
> finid
> http://LinuxBSDos.com
>
>
>
>
> On 2013-05-15 09:28, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>> at Sonicle we've almost finished rebuilding a brand new IPS repo with
>> updated packages from
>> latest illumos kernel, updated userland components, X11 1.13.1,
>> updated pkg commands.
>> We wanted to rebuild everything from available sources, to remove any
>> possible dependency
>> from old packages derived from OI.
>> This repo will be available soon on our public
>> pkg.sonicle.com/xstreamos publisher, then a pkg update
>> will do the job over any previous XStreamOS installation.
>> Then, I'd like to announce that we're also working on a Desktop
>> version of XStreamOS.
>> We've chosen, first, do deliver the LXDE desktop as a lightweight
>> frontend.
>> So we have already packaged all the gnome and other dependencies in
>> our userland.
>> The desktop already works, and is nice.
>> To make it usable, we're packaging all the typical application one
>> may need on a fresh install
>> (file manager, text editor, calculator, terminal, and so on).
>> We've also already packaged both Firefox 20.0.1 and Thunderbird
>> 17.0.5, and they work great on illumos.
>> We have plan to pre-package open-office or libre-office, pdf readers,
>> media apps and so on.
>> We would like your suggestions for what you would expect to have on a
>> Desktop distro of XStreamOS.
>> Thanks!
>> Gabriele Bulfon.
>> Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l.
>> Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880
>> via Santa Maria Valle 3 - 20123 - Milano - Italy
>> http://www.sonicle.com
>>
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