[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: [caiman-discuss] contents for slim install]

[Richard Lowe]

Sanjay Nadkarni <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com> writes:

> From: Sanjay Nadkarni <Sanjay.Nadkarni at sun.com>
> Subject: [caiman-discuss] contents for slim install
> To: caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 00:24:24 -0600
>
>
> I have spent some time investigating what might be appropriate for Slim 
> Install, aka OpenSolaris Live CD.  My strawman proposal is to have the 
> following:
>
> 1. A fully functioning GNOME desktop

"fully" would need to be more fleshed out.

> 2. Firefox
> 3. Thunderbird

> 4. GNU/Linux friendly utilities (bits that are currently delivered under 
> /usr/gnu

That's going to cause a lot of argument, which I don't intend to be
involved in.  One question though, in addition to the real utilities,
or instead of?

> 5. Plugins for flash and realplayer

I don't think these are redistributable, which would rule them out for
the indiana base.

> 6. New Solaris Installer
> 7. Support for the new network repository model.

> 8.  JRE ??

Only if necessary, I would say.

-- Rich