Gueven Bay wrote: > In my opinion it is one of the critical discussions to get one and for all > clear how the Indiana distro is structured: > Is it something like a monolithic approach where you get "only" Gnome and all > people working for and around Indiana are working with and for Gnome on OpSol > OR > Is Indiana only the most important packages needed for OpSol running where > every user can choose between several WindowManagers/Destop Environments. >
Gnome is currently the most well-integrated desktop on OpenSolaris. If you feel KDE should be so, then go ahead and contribute to the effort of making KDE well-integrated with OpenSolaris. For eg. make KPackage functional for SVR4 packaging, make the Kontrol Center plugins functional etc. > To clear up these differences: There is a diference when you have to download > a 700MB ISO, then install this system to your HD which automatically install > Gnome, then uninstall Gnome to download another 300 to 500MB to install KDE > for OpSol > OR > Where you download a 300MB ISO, which install the kernel plus important > packages - like you can do in Debian with the "debootstrap" > (http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/debootstrap // > http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apds03.html.en ) > tool - then your installer lets you choose between a 400MB Gnome and a 400MB > KDE. > The first example is something like 1GB for downloads the second is something > like 700MB. > This can be tackled if two downloads are provided. One a basic version with a basic window manager like Fluxbox and one wih Gnome. > > Also in my opinion Belenix is not Indiana. Because if Indiana should be a > "streamlined" Belenix Mr Murdock would have announced that the Indiana > project is going to build on and around of Belenix. Indiana is build > independently from Belenix. > AND > There is something other: In my feeling from all discussions here on this > list, I think that in the end the community doesn't have a voice in the > design , architecting and implementation of Indiana. It is just a feeling and > I can be very wrong, > but for example the decision to go the Gnome way and not even think about a > "dynamic system" where the user can choose between his This dynamic system concept is explicitly mentioned in the requirements. The ability to take the base kit and tailor your own variants. Regards, Moinak. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
