> 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. >
There are also 1,511 apps/packages at Blastwave. Preinstalled may be an issue however as these are 3.24 GB of disk space as compressed packages. A _whole_LOT_more when installed. -- Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
