[indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-03-30 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, With a release coming up in the not too distant future, it's time to have a think about what a 'Welcome to ...' guide might look like. What we currently have, for those running DP 1 or 2, is the following - file:///usr/share/doc/getting-started/html/index.html Dave had a great suggestion

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-03-31 Thread Todd Clayton
On Mar 30, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: > >- playing different media formats like mp3, aac >- playing DVD > Advanced (technologies we might want to promote) >- Working with ZFS >- Working with DTrace >- Working with CIFS VirtualB

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff Brown
How about: How to Upgrade It seems to me that the approach for Indiana is currently different than Solaris Express and the BFU cannot be used -- right? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opens

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-03-31 Thread Glynn Foster
Todd Clayton wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2008, at 2:35 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: > >> >>- playing different media formats like mp3, aac >>- playing DVD >> Advanced (technologies we might want to promote) >>- Working with ZFS >>- Working with DTrace >>

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-03-31 Thread Glynn Foster
Jeff Brown wrote: > How about: > > How to Upgrade > > It seems to me that the approach for Indiana is currently different than > Solaris Express and the BFU cannot be used -- right? -- Yeah, that should probably be in there - though are you talking about an upgrade from DP1 and DP2 to the fi

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-03-31 Thread Jeff Brown
> > Yeah, that should probably be in there - though are > you talking about an upgrade > from DP1 and DP2 to the first release? Would that > upgrade scenario likely to > change with the second release? To some extent, just > feels like we're trying to > see into the future, when we may not have

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-03 Thread Ken Mays
>What would you expect to see? Is there anything missing? Would you provide >>local links in the web-page, or could you simply package up some useful start >up >guide like the OpenSolaris mini-book? Glynn, Ref: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Summit I wrote the 'unofficial'

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-04 Thread Jennifer Pioch
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > With a release coming up in the not too distant future, it's time to have a > think about what a 'Welcome to ...' guide might look like. > > What we currently have, for those running DP 1 or 2, is the following

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-05 Thread Laurent Blume
Glynn Foster a écrit : > What would you expect to see? Is there anything missing? Would you provide > local > links in the web-page, or could you simply package up some useful start up > guide > like the OpenSolaris mini-book? I'd like something targeted at developers in the Advanced section,

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-05 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> d (technologies we might want to promote) > - Working with ZFS > - Working with DTrace > - Working with CIFS > - Others from - > > ttp://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/d > ocs-index/ > Social > - Help us by submitting your hardware details > - Where

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-06 Thread Jerry Rocteur
* W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-05 20:42]: > > d (technologies we might want to promote) > > - Working with ZFS > > - Working with DTrace > > - Working with CIFS > > - Others from - > > > > ttp://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/d > > ocs-index/ > >

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-07 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I didn't see Java on the list. Some of the mainstream Linux distros do not have the java environment set up right. In comparison, the current releases of SXDE/SXCE can be easily turned into an instant java server. (It even came with a turn-key example!) Thus, perhaps it would be nice to consid

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-07 Thread Glynn Foster
Laurent Blume wrote: > Glynn Foster a écrit : >> What would you expect to see? Is there anything missing? Would you provide >> local >> links in the web-page, or could you simply package up some useful start up >> guide >> like the OpenSolaris mini-book? > > I'd like something targeted at de

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-07 Thread Glynn Foster
Jennifer Pioch wrote: >> What would you expect to see? Is there anything missing? > > Overview and guide to the new shell features (i.e. ksh93 guide)? Does such a thing exist? Seems like some part of http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/ksh93-integration/docs would be ideal. Would those d

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-07 Thread Glynn Foster
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > Would also appreciate a quick SAMP/NAS guide/tutorial. Sounds similar to the 'How do I...' section - http://blogs.gnome.org/gman/2008/03/16/thoughts-on-a-probable-opensolariscom/ which makes a lot of sense to have somewhere. I'm not convinced we necessarily need it i

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-07 Thread Glynn Foster
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > I didn't see Java on the list. Some of the mainstream Linux distros do not > have the java environment set up right. In comparison, the current releases > of SXDE/SXCE can be easily turned into an instant java server. (It even came > with a turn-key example!) Thus, perha

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-07 Thread Glynn Foster
Ken Mays wrote: >> What would you expect to see? Is there anything missing? Would you provide >> >local links in the web-page, or could you simply package up some useful >> start up >guide like the OpenSolaris mini-book? > > Glynn, > > Ref: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Sum

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-08 Thread Laurent Blume
Glynn Foster a écrit : > I think it's an important section to have, though it's not clear whether > we have enough information to figure out some of those compatibility > issues. Perhaps a better thread for ARC, but I agree some acknowledgment > that Solaris exists and the differences between would

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-08 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > > Ken Mays wrote: > >> What would you expect to see? Is there anything > missing? Would you provide > >> >local links in the web-page, or could you simply > package up some useful > >> start up >guide like the OpenSolaris mini-book? > > > > Glynn, > > > > Ref: > http://www.genunix.org/wiki

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-08 Thread Glynn Foster
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > I guess I am beginning to wonder what's the purpose of Indiana? To provide an intuitive user experience right through download, install and configuration so that it can get to the environment you want it to be eg. Ruby on Rails developer. We're not going to solve the wo

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-09 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > I guess I am beginning to wonder what's the purpose > of Indiana? > > To provide an intuitive user experience right through > download, install and > configuration so that it can get to the environment > you want it to be eg. Ruby > on Rails developer. We're not going to solve the > world with

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-10 Thread Laurent Blume
Glynn Foster a écrit : > What would you expect to see? Is there anything missing? Would you provide > local > links in the web-page, or could you simply package up some useful start up > guide > like the OpenSolaris mini-book? Duh, there is an obvious point that's not there, and really should

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-11 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, Any chance you can get your mail client to wrap your mails at 80 odd columns? - either that, or Thunderbird is hopelessly confused for me ;) W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > I must admit that this is where I am getting so hopelessly confused: To > achiece the things you described, I can do it mysel

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-11 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> Hey, > > Any chance you can get your mail client to wrap your > mails at 80 odd columns? - > either that, or Thunderbird is hopelessly confused > for me ;) You will have to wait until someone fixes the Jiva (?) web forum, which is what I always used to post my reply. Looks fine on my Firefox

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-15 Thread Peter Tribble
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think we need to start making external software much more available. Who > wants > to have to go to the trouble of downloading a tarball, setting up a build > environment, building that piece of software and install

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-16 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> And to be honest, I've always found it much easier to > grab software > from the source rather than waste time trying to work > out how the > version that the OS supplies has been mangled. My experience is, most software programs, especially those in the desktop area, have become so convoluted

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-04-16 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Oops, it should be: --Most seasoned Linux users know that the war between various Linux distros has become a war of repositories; you choose a particular Linux distro primarily based on which one has the best repository or collection of repositories that satisfy your need.-- I made an exceptio

Re: [indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

2008-05-12 Thread Jennifer Pioch
On 4/8/08, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jennifer Pioch wrote: > > > > > > What would you expect to see? Is there anything missing? > > > > > > > Overview and guide to the new shell features (i.e. ksh93 guide)? > > > > Does such a thing exist? Seems like some part of > > > http:/