Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. I'll respond to things where I can
> I felt like I was jumping back to Linux circa '98 and fbsd around the same > time when the ports system was being heavily developed. Agreed...there is work being done on the packaging system, take a look at the [u]Indiana Problem Statement[/u]: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/documents/problem_statement/ in particular. [u]3.2 Package Management[/u]. Although if you are looking at a build system see [u]PKG-5[/u]. >Second, put Xen in the front row. We need to see that we can pop a Windows or >other installation right in at the onset of installation (well, I mean >immediately following installation). Give us a nice gui like that which >exists for ZFS and take folks by the hand so that we know that a >VMware/Parallels like solution is right there waiting for us to utilize. I'll second that, a user friendly implementation that provides similar functionality to VMWare workstation would work a treat, at the moment you have to use the VNC client to "remotely" connect to your Xen Guest OS, not exactly intuitive...and setting up that Guest is another story. >Third, give us zfs config and installation by default. I'm pretty sure that ZFS default is a design goal, i'll be pretty surprised if it isn't >I would also add some polish to the installer. You can download a demo of the new dwarf-caiman installer here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/files/SUNWgui-install-x86.pkg or if you are willing to run the latest Solaris Express Community Edition (NV70) you can use the real thing, see Dave Miner's blog entry: http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/try_out_the_dwarf_caiman Also you can take a look at the screenshots here: http://www.gnome.org/%7Egman/gui-install/ >Things also *seem* slow when you get into X. I don't know why, but it just >seems generally slower than XF86 or Xorg on an ubuntu distro, gentoo, etc. Try the help forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=31 >I'll probably come back with many more suggestions if I find some time to >install Nevada again and try to get netatalk going. Thanks again for your constructive feedback. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
