[indiana-discuss] Tim's 0.02

[Tim Foster]

Hi All,

I'm really looking forward to seeing that Indiana can offer, and will
do anything I can to help out.

My thoughts:

  - Package management

  I echo the comments so far: a network-based package repository,
that's smart enough not to re-install libraries already on my system
would be super. 1 CD to install would be great too.

  - Install

  I know there's work ongoing on a new installer - but I was really
excited by the comments Ian made about virtualisation during his SVOSUG
talk[1]. I suspect it'll be a while before we get this, but it sounds
fantastic.

  - Desktop

  It might be worthwhile for everyone to read the Desktop Gaps document
that the Desktop Community put together a while back:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/jds/documents/desktop_gaps

I think it pretty clearly shows the areas that are lacking in the
OpenSolaris desktop today.

Of course, many are already being looked at as part of the ongoing JDS
work, which is great to see - the desktop has come on in leaps & bounds
over the last few years - it's *nearly* at the stage where I'd be happy
to ditch my Mac at home in favour of OpenSolaris.

  - Power management

  For me, getting suspend-to-ram working would be enough to make that
switch. Solaris already archives all my photos, music, etc. but being
able to get instant-on would promote Solaris to being my main platform
for nearly all my home computer use.

	cheers,
			tim

[1] ~ 35:10 into Ben's video/mp3 of the meeting:
http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=823
http://blogs.sun.com/timf/entry/ian_murdock_at_svosug_the
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
				  http://blogs.sun.com/timf