On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:56:52 -0400 Dan McDonald <dan...@omniti.com> wrote:
> > If we need more docs because it will attract people to OmniOS and help it > grow, I'm all for it. Specific examples of what people think will help are > appreciated. > If we want to be more friendly to newcomers some kind of basic stuff is needed. I can remember my own first journey into Omnios which demanded endless searches and readings from Oracle (Solaris), OpenIndiana, Nexenta, SmartOS, Google, and Youtube etc. And of course reading Omniti and this list. A lot of stuff from Oracle is good but cannot always be used directly since Omnios/Illumos is somewhere in between Solaris 10 and Solaris 11. What would have helped me a great deal would have been able to get all this stuff from one source, and a source with examples directly able to be used. First I think a list of hardware known to work and not known to work would be great. The list should be divided into a section for each stable and LTS version. Something like: 1) CPU 2) Chipset 3) GPU 4) Controller. Onboard, HBA and RAID 5) Nics 6) Motherboards An something more which I am sure I have forgotten;-) I my opinion the best thing would be a web based searchable database. It should be open to everyone registered and everyone should be encourage to add there own findings. Second, I really mis some good tutorials about various subjects. This could be implemented in some kind of wiki. It should be open to everyone registered and everyone should be encourage to add input they think would be of interest to others. There is nothing better than to stand on the shoulders of other wise guys. Third, a section of typical problems users can find them selfs in with guides to either solve the problem or if to solution is found in the section yet and guide to extract all needed information to be send to the list when asking for help. Providing a list of required information to the ones able to help you as part of the first request on the list is more likely to receive a swift answer with, hopefully, the correct solution. As I am very pleased with Omnios I would love to see its popularity rise so I will participate to the best of my knowledge and spare time. -- Hilsen/Regards Michael Rasmussen Get my public GnuPG keys: michael <at> rasmussen <dot> cc http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD3C9A00E mir <at> datanom <dot> net http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE501F51C mir <at> miras <dot> org http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE3E80917 -------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/games/fortune -es says: It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable. -- Spock, "The Enterprise Incident", stardate 5027.3
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