+1 from me, I would also like to assist
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Jerry Tan <Jerry.Tan at sun.com> wrote: > good idea. > > cc: desktop team > >> Should we start this as a project under the desktop community? >> >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:59 AM, david <davidbilliot at hotmail.com <mailto: >> davidbilliot at hotmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I have been using OpenSolaris now for almost a year and I also >> have Solaris 10 and SXCE on some other computers just to learn >> more about the OS. My main computers all run OpenSolaris. >> >> I don't know anything about servers or sparc chips and all that, I >> just use OpenSolaris as a desktop OS. The learning curve was >> tough at first but now I think that I have the hang of most of the >> things that I need to do to get the OS where it needs to be to be >> a decent OS of the desktop. >> >> I think that it would be a very good idea to produce a Tutorial >> for new OpenSolaris users who wish to use it for a desktop OS. >> Many of the things in it could be obvious, like fire up the IPS >> and get more software but other things are not so obvious like >> Register for the extras repository or be sure to use the PKG >> version of Adobe Reader instead of the Bin. >> >> I would like to get started on this and I want to post it in a way >> that would allow others who know more about the OS than I do to be >> able to edit it and help out if they wish. In it we could include >> some simple Terminal commands that they can learn how to use but >> also show them how to use the GUI to not have to deal with the >> terminal as much as most instructions for Solaris on the internet >> suggest. >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org> >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto:opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org >> >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20090714/8bd2ef71/attachment.html>
