Stefan Teleman wrote: > On 3/31/06, Frank Ludolph <frank.ludolph at sun.com> wrote: > >> There is move afoot to create a version of the Solaris installer crafted >> for developers, i.e. it would include developer tools as part of the >> installation. >> >> One target user could be the college sophomore CS student, i.e., someone >> learning to do real real development who also needs to write papers, >> play media, etc. Another target user would be the professional developer. >> >> The question is "What would you want to see included and how would you >> organize it?" >> > > my 0.02: > > i would think that the two targets are actually not that different. > imho, the only measurable difference would come mostly from years of > experience, and not as much from the set of tools being used, with one > major exception: for the CS student package, i would not provide any > Java samples. disclaimer: this is not a religious statement. however, > for the CS student, i believe that C and C++ come first, then > Java/Ruby On Ice/C#/Mono/Whatever. but that's just my opinion. > > so, i would bundle: > > - A nice and easy installer (i somehow think that the typical CS > sophomore will not be willing to invest more than 15 minutes of their > time in figuring out how to install Solaris) > - A nice Desktop (with capabilities of playing DVD/CD/MP3, burning to > DVD/CD, and iPod -- i personally couldn't care less about iPods, but > for a sophomore, iPods could be the make or break feature) > - Sun Studio 11 > - XEmacs > - UTF-8 localization > - The extremely useful DTrace scripts at > http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/dtrace.html#DTraceToolkit > BTW BeleniX includes a little gtk based GUI to browse the DTraceToolkit docs. This can be dropped in as well with an icon in some conspicuous place so that folks can quickly locate and use this great set of scripts.
Regards, Moinak. > - A good set of C and C++ programming samples tackling complex issues like: > = fork(2), fork1(2), forkall(2) and vfork(2) semantics in C and in C++ > = multithreaded programming > = event-driven programming > = differences between C and C++ > = differences between Solaris and Linux wrt C and C++ > = locale aware programming > > - A good set of buggy C and C++ programming samples (with bug > complexity ranging from obvious to oblivious), complementing the > "good" samples > > just my thoughts. > > --Stefan > > > > > > > > -- > Stefan Teleman > stefan.teleman at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >
