Glynn Foster wrote:
>
> I'm very pleased to announce that the first milestone of Project Indiana is
> now
> available - called OpenSolaris Developer Preview.
>
> It's available for download at
>
> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/indiana/downloads/current/in-preview.iso
[snip]
Congrats to all! :-)
I only did a quick look:
- Many locales are missing. IMO it may be nice to ship (limited to one
per country to restrict disk space requirements):
"C"
"en_US.UTF-8" (as default, following the default for SuSE Linux and
RedHat)
"ja_JP.UTF-8" (for japan)
"zh_CN.UTF-8" (for china)
etc.
- The manual page subsystem should be adjusted to be a bit more
enduser-friendly (I have a rewrite of /usr/bin/man queued, please ask
either me or Michelle Olson)
- The default interactive shell environment needs some adjustments
(better defaults for prompt, PAGER, MANPATH etc.)
- Please allow localised manual pages to be installed on demand (e.g.
Solaris comes with a huge list of japanese and chinese manual pages)
- It may be nice to think about shipping the VMware tools by default or
as an installable package (currently the system clock has problems which
causes other issues over time)
- Where are the "traditional" X11 tools like "xclock" or "xeyes" ? ;-(
- The network autodetection assumes that the local network has DHCP
(which is not always available)
- If network is available and the system is not running VMware tools
"xntpd" should be enabled and sync the time against an external source
(e.g. some kind of "time autodetection" ... :-) )
- Why was the automounter for /home/ removed ? I liked my traditional
"/home/${LOGNAME}" directory...
.... that's all what I found in a 5min look...
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Bye,
Roland
P.S.: Setting Reply-To: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to handle the
technical stuff listed above there...
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