James Dickens wrote:
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.
At the outset, I see your point and respect it, but would make the
following arguments:
1) Governance and the development processes are still very much "in
progress". We're getting closer and closer every day to completing
these but its a huge task and as such the proper procedures for making
such a case are not yet in place.
2) The "community" in SX:CR is, by my interpretation, for the
development community that is keeping in sync as closely as possible
with what the full Solaris build would be like. Diverging from the
standard WOD makes it "something else"(tm), in a sense a seperate
competing distribution.
3) There are currently 5 distributions for OpenSolaris. I see no reason
to neglect those efforts and to attempt to push effort back into
something thats not attempting to compete.
4) Its been made clear that OpenSolaris will not endorse or creation of
its own any one distribution. I agree with and respect that opinion.
SX:CR is not a distro, nor should it become one. To attempt to do so is
to break a "long standing" agreement.
I could go on, but in short, your asking for a distro. Therefore I
suggest using a distro. If Nexenta or others isn't keeping up to date
or doesn't contain tools you want as quickly as you'd wish, then helping
them push out releases fast would be the appropriate course of action.
Alternatively, start you own distro. :)
benr.
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