Philip, Great ideas...and your earlier ones too. I especially like the idea of pulling it together so others can pull it down and create their own DVD is needed.
Joey, Thanks for the details on what is one your DVD. Would love to connect one what you did and how you did it....I bet you can speed us along! T Philip Machanick wrote On 10/26/05 20:14,: > Something also useful would be some hints and howtos e.g. getting the > most out of DTrace, installing on common platforms, running on > virtual machines like VMware and VirtualPC, ... I am planning on > exploring some of this ground over December-February (our summer). > > On 27/10/2005, at 12:54 PM, Joey Guo wrote: > > >>Hi all, >> >>It's really a good idea and it's proved helpful from my experience >>of making the first version of the OpenSolaris DVD. >> >>Please refer to my blog about the details (http://blogs.sun.com/ >>joeyguo) >>The First Version OpenSolaris DVD Rolled Out The first version >>OpenSolaris DVD will distribute at the OpenSolaris Beijing User >>Group meeting and 2005 China National OS Teachers' Conference on >>Oct. 15. The DVD include the following contents. >> >>Tools: >>All tools are classified into SPARC and x86 versions. Please go the >>subdirectories (./sparc and ./x86) to get the corresponding version >>of following tools: >> >>>1. Netbeans 4.1 and 5.0 beta >>>2. Sun Studio 10 >>>3. Latest Firefox binary >>>4. Latest Thunderbird binary >>>5. Starsuites 8 trial on x86 >>>6. OpenSolaris packages, >> >>Src: >> >>>1. OpenSolaris source >>>2. Closed Solaris binaries >> >>Documents: >> >>>1. Solaris Express Install Guide >>>2. OpenSolaris Build and Install Guide >>>3. Sun Studio 10 Install Guide >>>4. DTrace Guide >>>5. Configuring Multiboot Environments on Sun x64 Systems with AMD >>> >>>>We're pulling together a media kit and training DVD for >>>>students. Here >>>>are some of the things we'd like to include. Anything you would >>>>add or >>>>remove? >>>> >>>>- Solaris Express Community Release >>>>- OpenSolaris source code >>>>- Studio compiler and other tools >>>>- gcc compiler >>>> >>>>- Video of a Solaris installation >> >>I have a document with the pictures step-by-step. >> >>>>- What to expect from OpenSolaris vs Linux vs FreeBSD etc. >> >>I have a collection of the pointers and documents. >> >>>>- Documentation on how to install and boot Solaris >>>>- Pointers to key info on opensolaris.org >>>> >>>>What do you think? Are we on the right track? >>>> >>>> >>> >>>Teresa, >>> >>>That's a great idea. Can you fit all of that onto a single DVD :) >>> >> >>Yep, it's possible. I have made the first version of DVD and handed >>out at the conference and user group. >> >> >>>How about StarOffice 8? >>> >> >>Yep, so far we have only the x86 version. >> >>>Do key info include pointers to external audio, ethernet drivers >>>and blastwave.org? >>> >> >>As for the drivers, it seems to me most of them are included in the >>Solaris Express DVD. >> >>We could include some pointers to the Download center and >>Blastwave, but we couldn't include everything in the DVD. >> >>Please tell me the expected date you want to release them. I could >>roll-up them and send to you for your reference. >> >>HIH. >> >>Thanks & Best regards, >>-- Joey Guo, Solaris x86 Engineering, http://blogs.sun.com/JoeyGuo >>Phone number: (8610) 8261-8200 (x.82245) >>_______________________________________________ >>edu-discuss mailing list >>edu-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > Philip Machanick School of ITEE, University of > Queensland > Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/ > ~philip/ > phone +61(7) 3365 2766 fax +61(7) 3365 4999 > mailto:philip at itee.uq.edu.au > >
