+1 Maybe 1 dedicated ISO build to be installed on the HP Microserver which has pre-installed: 1. napp-it (creating networkshares and manage Harddisks at ease) 2. SMTP/POP3 servers with smart configuration scripts so a user can create a mailserver at ease 3. CUPS scripts for printer sharing
If you take the HP microserver and stick 4x 1 TB drives and 2x2 GB in it, you have a great performing small office appliance for less than € 800,- This way you will create a worldwide rumor about a new and lightning fast OS. It will attract new (business) users. After this more basic ISO's can be developed for other hardware. OI runs out-of-the box on the Microserver hardware. I own a HP Microserver and it performs extremely well. It is used as a newsgroup reader, NFS server, Windows user-profile storage, mailserver, printerserver and more. -----Original Message----- From: Reginald Beardsley [mailto:pulask...@yahoo.com] Sent: dinsdag 4 september 2012 17:02 To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns" Is it really necessary to convince the freeNAS people to change? Mark Creamer's response to the thread, "Multiple Windows servers and a OI NAS, how to get there" seems to point to a simpler solution. Offer as an install time option a configuration of OI w/ ZFS as a file server in a mixed MacOS, Windows & *nix environment. That as an "out of box" packaged solution ought to generate a good bit of interest in OI/Illumos. I don't do Windows, but from what I understand, everything is already available if you know how to configure it. That would leave just a good HCL as an obstacle to wider use of OI. Some judicious choices of new SATA & SAS drivers would ease much of the hardware problems. Some visible momentum would help persuade hardware vendors to support the development of drivers for OI/Illumos. Have Fun! Reg --- On Tue, 9/4/12, Robin Axelsson <gu99r...@student.chalmers.se> wrote: > From: Robin Axelsson <gu99r...@student.chalmers.se> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] "OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns" > To: openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2012, 9:13 AM I certainly hope you are > right. But I also hope you are aware of survival bias that may "color" > your past experiences. It is very easy to look at the successful > projects that have managed to survive over the years in retrospect > while forgetting about those project that died and fell into oblivion. > > I guess it should come to no surprise that most people who use open > source software don't care. Probably the vast majority don't know > about Alasdair Lumsden's resignation, let alone that he exists. That's > why one should take into consideration that for every 100 or so new > users 2-5 of them may eventually start contributing and developing for > Illumos. I think incentives such as career opportunities and other > things that make Illumos and OpenIndiana look "cool" > should be important to stress. > > Perhaps it would be possible to convince the freeNAS people to use > Illumos/OpenIndana instead. > > On 2012-09-01 16:48, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > > On Sat, 1 Sep 2012, Robin Axelsson wrote: > >> > >> I'm fully aware of the power of the command line > and it is the command line that really makes me like Unix based OSes > (including Linux). But making OI look well-polished with a fancy and > easy to administer web-admin GUI that would encourage the average-Joe > to use it as a home-NAS / virtual server is not a bad thing. That way > OI would reach a higher penetration with a larger user-base and most > importantly; it will get _free advertising_. To some extent the old > adage "A good product markets itself" has some truth in it. But it > must not only be good, it has to /look/ good so that even a less > versed person will understand how good it is. > > > > Focusing on issues like this would be putting the cart > before the horse. It is more important to be able to easily build > everything and incorporate updates than to have a fancy configuration > GUI. OI popularity should come second to correct functionality and > having an organization (of volunteers and corporate entities) to > sustain it. If OI is worthy, popularity will follow, even if only from > people who already preferred Solaris. > > > > OpenIndiana is still very young. Successful OS > distributions take quite a few years to become significant. It is not > something which happens in just a couple of years. > > > > Bob > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss