There is the small piece of the pie in which the community really needs the support of Sun engineers in provide quality desktop environments and graphic libraries comparable to competing server/desktop OSes.
Namely, KDE/GNOME support which is being done very well by the OpenSolaris desktop community. The user's desktop experience is what gets mentioned the most in even the linux magazines besides whether they can use UNIX desktop versus a Windows one. The other is having a tool like apt-get in which you can install software from a CD/DVD archive set of from a remote mirrored FTP site (kinda like Cygwin methodology). You can see what you have installed on your system and then get the updates on what is available on the mirrors to update your desktop/server. ANY of the current Solaris package builder can then support the concept. I think the Nexenta team has done an excellent job in that regards. Also, after some assistance I noticed that we actually could have the same number of packages as Debian or FreeBSD (i.e. 14,000-20,200+ packaes/ports) with just a little elbow grease build logs and bug reporting. All through the autobuilding system and a very similar http://buildd.debian.org/ type system. So, why not just work with Nexenta and Debian for now to test the build of all of Debian's current stable/testing/unstable packages for Nexenta and see where that gets us?? Ken Mays EarthLink, Inc. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
