Paul Harper wrote: > Could there be a minimal install cd in time for OpenSolaris 2008.11 for > people setting up servers, older PC's, installing on the eeepc, etc and > otherwise have space requirements? > > I have seen a few requests on Help and I have suggested Milax Server. But > Milax is not based on IPS. So you cannot upgrade it. > > Just an idea. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > This is the long-term intention, but all of the current development eggs are in the desktop basket to get Solaris decent for companies like Sun itself to use in-house in place of Windows. Server support is not an unreasonable or hard task to accomplish, it would require a lot of experimentation and basic debugging skills in addition to what's documented for each ips package so that one could strip out X11 dependencies. A FreeBSD ports source model for custom packages to lessen the dependency and give users the freedom is needed but of course would not be a supported case initially like binary packages. At this point it's going to not be Sun spinning a server variant of OpenSolaris, but rather the community since they seem too busy to deal with it in the 2008.11 timeframe which is over in about 3 weeks.
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