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

Andras Barna andras.barna at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 18:00:29 PDT 2007


Hi,
I have two friendly questions about the list:
1) why sendmail is included, why not postfix? postfix is more simple
then sendmail (for new users)
2) why isn't the OSS (open sound system) drivers included?
for new users the first impression matters.

On 9/7/07, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote:
> We've been working away at getting a prototype Slim Install CD built
> (fairly successfully ;-) and I've posted an updated package list off of
> the Slim announcements page [1].  I also posted diffs vs. Sanjay's
> original list, the summary of which is essentially adding the Dwarf
> Caiman installer, the man pages, fix a few typos and dependencies that
> were missing, and use Gnome packages built against the FOX packages.
>
> The images I'm building based on this list are 563 MB, will boot to a
> GDM login prompt, and successful login as root.  On my Tecra M5 that's
> about 4 minutes from GRUB prompt to fully running desktop.
>
> Dave
>
> [1]
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Slim_Install/slim_annoucememts/
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-- 
Andy



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