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

[Mark Phalan]

On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 14:27 -0600, Sanjay Nadkarni wrote:
>         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
>         2. Firefox
>         3. Thunderbird
>         4. GNU/Linux friendly utilities (bits that are currently
>         delivered under 
>         /usr/gnu
>         5. Plugins for flash and realplayer
>         6. New Solaris Installer
>         7. Support for the new network repository model.
>         8.  JRE ??
>         
>         Are there other items that need to added or dropped ? 
>         

I think that its really important that the live cd is a true subset of
what a user would get from a full indiana (or solaris next as the case
may be) install. From a usability perspective the closer to the finally
installed bits the better - including default settings etc. I'd be
strongly against delivering a gnu userland if that wasn't the default
when the bits are finally committed to disk.

-Mark

>         
>         Thanks
>         
>         -Sanjay