Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-07 Thread Moinak . Ghosh
Hi, This project initially just started as a learning experience to understand how x86 boot and miniroot work. But later it progressed to a stage where we found that a complete distro is possible. The initial aim was to get a GNU/Solaris distro and Solaris compatibility option was later decide

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-04 Thread Glynn Foster
Hey, On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 13:43 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > I do not really understand why another distri has been created instead > of helping to make the current distribution better. Note that belenix > still gives less features than SchilliX-0.1 Seems like they also benefited from the lea

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-04 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The people who did work on seem to have taken the mail exchange on this > > > list as an input, but they did never try to even contact us. So it is > > > obvious that tour points do not apply. > > > > Ju

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The people who did work on seem to have taken the mail exchange on this > > list as an input, but they did never try to even contact us. So it is > > obvious that tour points do not apply. > > Just speculating, but did you ever think of the possibility

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-04 Thread Gunnar Ritter
Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Theo Schlossnagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the same reasons any new distro is ever created. They don't like > > either the philosophy, the attitude, the layout, the people, the > > concept, the country in which it resides. Some of these ar

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Theo Schlossnagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > > >I do not really understand why another distri has been created instead > >of helping to make the current distribution better. Note that belenix > >still gives less features than SchilliX-0.1 > > > > > For the same rea

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-04 Thread Theo Schlossnagle
Joerg Schilling wrote: I do not really understand why another distri has been created instead of helping to make the current distribution better. Note that belenix still gives less features than SchilliX-0.1 For the same reasons any new distro is ever created. They don't like either the ph

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Moinak Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Some of the considerations for coming up with this LiveCD are listed at: > http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/belenix_background.html But your distri does not solve a single of the named problems. SchilliX is much closer to your demands

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-03 Thread Moinak Ghosh
John Dough wrote: hiya please take this in good spirits, but isnt there a live CD out already? Schillix SchilliX - OpenSolaris based Distribution SchilliX - OpenSolaris based Distribution ... SchilliX LiveCD v0.1. download via ftp · download via http · download from ftp mirror UNI-Ulm ... sch

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-02 Thread Jim Grisanzio
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: Think of it this way, In a little more than two months, the number of independent OpenSolaris-based distros increased by 100%. Isn't that great? Yep. And I put a little announcement on OpenSolaris about it, too. Jim -- Jim Grisanzio, Community Manager, OpenSolaris

[osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-01 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
Think of it this way, In a little more than two months, the number of independent OpenSolaris-based distros increased by 100%. Isn't that great? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensol

[osol-discuss] Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro

2005-10-01 Thread John Dough
hiya please take this in good spirits, but isnt there a live CD out already? Schillix SchilliX - OpenSolaris based Distribution SchilliX - OpenSolaris based Distribution ... SchilliX LiveCD v0.1. download via ftp · download via http · download from ftp mirror UNI-Ulm ... schillix.berlios.de/inde