OpenSolaris has been out a year now and the number one download of the community is Solaris Express Community Release, but what makes it the Community release? Is it because it's released 2 weeks earlier than Solaris Express?
How about adding things into it that makes it different and more useful and closer reflect the community as a whole? Most people after installing it immediately have to install 3rd party drivers and apps. My idea is to let the community vote on what should be added to the community release some examples include DTrace Toolkit by Brendan G. All 3rd party hardware drivers that we can obtain permission to put on the disk BrandZ patches if available for the particular build/ Rich Teer's documents on building OpenSolaris Pkg-add Schilly's Lib and Tools (star, sfind, cdrecord, etc.) Firefox Community Submitted themes and Wallpapers. Since Solaris Express Community version obviously not supported by Sun as documented in the click through licensing agreements, why not make it easier on the users and make it easier for Linux converts no need to make them go on the net to get what the "Communities have built" I'm sure with a little work from a Sun Engineer, all these could be added to the Solaris Express Install quite painlessly before each Solaris Express Community Release Drop. New users and converts are turned off by saying go download foo. To make Solaris work the way they expect it to behave. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
