Other distros will better serve those who need a very, very lean system. OI is meant to facilitate usable desktop variant of Illumos for power users who need a better hobby than linux administration ;)
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:19 AM, ken mays <maybird1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > The desktop for OpenSolaris is not an issue nor major desktop apps. Most of > the major apps were ported and some specs live in SFE. > > You can look at distros like Shillix or even Solaris 11. Do you need Xorg 7.7 > or Xfce 4.10? What specific hardware do you have and what does not work? > > OpenSolaris distro was always a CORE OS distro in which most bloatware apps > was moved to IPS. So X11 is the main thing to support besides parts of JDS. > ------------------------------ > On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 4:38 AM EDT Damian Wojslaw wrote: > >>Hello >> >>So, all you OpenIndiana developers, whom I admire, what comes next? :) >>I've seen few people declaring they would like to help, I think packaging was >>mostly mentioned. >>Please, let me ask few questions. >> >>1. Is this link still valid? http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/IPS+Knowledge >>2. What would those people need to do, so start maintaining a package? Is >>there a process, >>like in Debian, a person has to go through before they are given package >>maintaining duty? >>3. Is the development sof OI till going at all? >> >>4. What you, OI developers, would want from this distribution? What your >>priorities are? >> >> >>I'd like to reiterate what I've said many times in the past, when OpenSolaris >>was still a live distribution. >>If illumos wants to become widespread, it needs desktop distribution, a >>usable one, so that people can use it, >>play with it and learn it. This is how Linux crept into datacenters, because >>people like me installed it as their >>hobby desktop, to look at X, to look at FVWM, to use pine and share modem >>connection at home. And then, >>it was natural to start exim and apache on it. And then people like me became >>admins, CIOs and CTOs and >>started to use what they knew and liked. And I'd love illumos to become the >>system people can install as their >>hobby desktop. >> >>Thank you. >> >>Damian Wojsław >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>oi-dev mailing list >>oi-dev@openindiana.org >>http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev