On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Anon Y Mous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a solution for Herr Martin Bochnig that I think will make everyone in > the OpenSolaris community happy: > > There are many people like me who have old Pentium III and Pentium IV > computers with only 500 megabytes of RAM and we can't run Project Indiana > OpenSolaris 2008.05 on these computers because it will run too slow. Instead, > I have to run an XFCE based OpenSolaris distro called "Milax" (the solaris > version of da mn small linux), which you can download from this link: > > http://www.milax.org/ > > and I love using Milax for certain purposes because it is so compact, so > light weight and so much faster and more efficient than the regular Solaris > and OpenSolaris distros are on old hardware. > > However, there is one big problem-- MILAX DOES NOT HAVE A GOOD PACKAGE > MANAGEMENT SYSTEM!!!! And I think that is the one thing that is slowing it > down from getting more widespread use and adoption. > > So why don't we have Martin Bochnig join forces with the Russian guy who does > the programming for Milax and integrate the Conary package management system > in to XFCE Milax. Call it "Bochnix" or whatever you want, but I think that > Milax with a Conary package management system would have definite advantages > for customized ZFS server installations and for running on older platforms > like my $100 Acer laptop: the speed, efficiency, and compactness of Milax > combined with the flexibility and customization of the Conary package > management system would be a real force to be reckoned with in the UNIX > world. Who knows? I'm not a fortune teller, but maybe it will be the best > UNIX ever twenty or thirty years from now. You won't know if you don't try. > > I think it would be better to combine Martux and Milax into one > super-powerful OpenSolaris distro (Marlax?) than it would be to have what we > currently have right now where everyone is working at cross purposes trying > to run their own "one man show" by creating their own custom distro instead > of combining forces and getting some group synergy effects going.
Hey, I'm absolutely open to this. But my only "wish" or "pre-condition" was (and is) the name "Natamar". The generic distro bulk tool is open to everyone (doesn't create the distro yet, only automates builds of currently on, sfw, fox-gate, conary). Rest is still standalone on my hdds. http://www.martux.org:8001 (pw is "OpenSolarisIsGreat" for pull and push). But as I said, if anybody wants that I merge "my" pet distro with theirs, then the name is going to be "Natamar". Maybe it is too much that I want this. Then we must continue separately :) :) %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
