Roland Mainz wrote:
> 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.
>
We chose this simply for schedule. For March we will definitely include
more locales. I am not sure how many, it will depend on the space
available.
> - 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)
>
>
I will very definitely take a look at that.
> - 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)
>
This is an NWAM issue. I am aware that they are looking at a far more
complete solution than what we have. We aimed for a 90% (hopefully ;-)
solution. I believe DHCP/DNS falls into that category.
> - 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" ... :-) )
>
Good point. For now could you log a bug so that we can track this
against the distribution.
> - Why was the automounter for /home/ removed ? I liked my traditional
> "/home/${LOGNAME}" directory...
>
Could you please file a bug (bugzilla). I believe this was missed out.
Thanks for your review.
-Sanjay
>
> .... that's all what I found in a 5min look...
>
> ----
>
> Bye,
> Roland
>
> P.S.: Setting Reply-To: to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to handle the
> technical stuff listed above there...
>
>
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