[caiman-discuss] Updated Slim Install CD package list posted

[MC]

> I think most people wanting to use it for a server install will have their own defined set of packages that we won't be able to predict as easily

I can tell you about one big target: people using this as a ZFS file server.  I'm having a hard time thinking of a more popular use case than that.  Check it: http://www.google.com/trends?q=zfs%2C+dtrace%2C+opensolaris&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

To me this means including Samba server.  Probably NFS server too for the Linux people.  These are actually no-brainers to me.

Note that some very significant portion of LiveCDs today are actually booted into virtual machines.  So you're looking at all these ZFS-curious people starting it up on their host OS, right clicking on a folder in the guest, clicking Share, and seeing if they can access it or not on the host.  And then they'll send a couple virtual disks into the guest, make a zpool, and try to share that.  This is the sort of thing you want to support.
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