[OpenIndiana-discuss] What Do I Have To Install To Get A GUI ?

[Dave Miner]

On 07/22/14 10:36, Ron Dawson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Alan Coopersmith <
> alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Things work much better if you use the GUI installer to install systems on
>> which you want to run a GUI.   On Solaris 11, "pkg install solaris-desktop"
>> would get you all the bits as well, but since OpenIndiana still uses the
>> old names, the packages from the GUI install media are grouped under the
>> more obscure name, "pkg install slim_install".
>>
>> I've been curious for a while where the group name slim_install came
> from.  Is slim an acronym for something?

No, it was just a name we chose during OpenSolaris development to 
differentiate it from a more complete install that included all locales 
and some other things (that was known as "babel_install").  "slim" was a 
decidedly relative term :-)

Dave