Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-15 Thread david
I will try to go throught he IPS and list out all the good packages for normal desktop users and to list the ones they probably do not need since they are for servers. I am having trouble finding the packages that are for sparc. I basically have to try to install a package before the GUI

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-15 Thread Anon Y Mous
Hey Billiot, if you can please put your tutorial in the OpenSolaris HOWTO's at the genunix wiki at this link: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/HOWTOs_and_Guides That way I can easily find it and direct other people to read the link to your tutorial. -- This message posted from

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-15 Thread Jerry Tan
Does anyone have any comments on what I put in the initial ODT file? Hi, David, if you can add more picture into it, that will be great. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-15 Thread david
I have copied the tutorial into the Wiki. Now it would be great if the Desktop community could link to it. I am going to try to get some picture to put into it there. I also think that it is important to have a way for someone to download it if they want to print it out and read it that

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread Calum Benson
On 14 Jul 2009, at 04:44, david wrote: Thank you both for wanting to help. The Desktop community would be a good place I think if they accept us. Also, sorry, I got an email that looked like you both had emailed me so I sent a reply. Then I came here and saw that the emails were

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread Che Kristo
Good idea...if no one does it over the next couple of days I will wikify it over at genunix when I get some free time On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Calum Benson calum.ben...@sun.com wrote: On 14 Jul 2009, at 04:44, david wrote: Thank you both for wanting to help. The Desktop community

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread john kroll
What is your tuition enrollment fee at genunix.com ?? Is it better than Sun tech university? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread Che Kristo
There is no enrollment fee, it is a community resource with less of the governance on osol.org...a scratchpad i guess On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:32 PM, john kroll jek0...@sbcglobal.net wrote: What is your tuition enrollment fee at genunix.com ?? Is it better than Sun tech university? -- This

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread david
Does anyone have any comments on what I put in the initial ODT file? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-14 Thread Che Kristo
I have a few blogs about getting multimedia set up which we could use: http://myunix.org/2009/07/13/dvd-playback-on-opensolaris-the-foss-way/ , http://myunix.org/2008/12/22/getting-software-for-opensolaris/ lets identify all of the areas of need and find existing blogs that cover the topic - we

[osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-13 Thread david
I have been using OpenSolaris now for almost a year and I also have Solaris 10 and SXCE on some other computers just to learn more about the OS. My main computers all run OpenSolaris. I don't know anything about servers or sparc chips and all that, I just use OpenSolaris as a desktop OS.

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-13 Thread Che Kristo
Should we start this as a project under the desktop community? On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:59 AM, david davidbill...@hotmail.com wrote: I have been using OpenSolaris now for almost a year and I also have Solaris 10 and SXCE on some other computers just to learn more about the OS. My main

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-13 Thread Jerry Tan
good idea. cc: desktop team Should we start this as a project under the desktop community? On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:59 AM, david davidbill...@hotmail.com mailto:davidbill...@hotmail.com wrote: I have been using OpenSolaris now for almost a year and I also have Solaris 10 and SXCE

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-13 Thread Che Kristo
+1 from me, I would also like to assist On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Jerry Tan jerry@sun.com wrote: good idea. cc: desktop team Should we start this as a project under the desktop community? On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:59 AM, david davidbill...@hotmail.com mailto:

Re: [osol-discuss] Desktop Tutorial

2009-07-13 Thread david
Thank you both for wanting to help. The Desktop community would be a good place I think if they accept us. Also, sorry, I got an email that looked like you both had emailed me so I sent a reply. Then I came here and saw that the emails were really from the thread so sorry if you feel that