[indiana-discuss] Indiana Wish List

[Ian Murdock]

Dave Miner wrote:
> The project has to have a clear statement of what it will be initially - 
> is it a desktop that will attract people to OpenSolaris, or a minimal 
> base core to be used in building a bunch of distros?  I believe that Ian 
> and Glynn have expressed strongly the former.

Yep. In my view, we're first and foremost building a distro that
will grow the userbase. We should also have some notion of a core
that's the compatibility baseline for derivatives, but I believe
that's secondary and can be done as a subsetting exercise once we
get to the distro. I strongly agree with "minimalist" though in
the sense that we shouldn't ship multiple options--where
we can, let's just pick one and make sure it's integrated and works.
Missing something? It's just a "pkg install" away; and, if it's
something big like KDE, things like "Kindiana" will no doubt emerge.

-ian
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