[indiana-discuss] My ideas

[Laurent Blume]

Hi Jürgen,

Your idea is good, but hardly new. It sounds quite identical to what 
Nexenta has been doing for some time now.

http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki

Laurent

Juergen Lueters a écrit :
> Hi folks,
> 
> as a long term solaris user and admin i am glad to see that sun is
> getting on track now.
> 
> I think indiana, from a technical point of view, 
> should be a Debian GNU SUN /opensolaris kind of system.  
> 
> The debian project is doing a amazing job in producing a stable os.
> Debian supports around 13.ooo packages. They have a decent installer. So
> that is a good start.
> dpgk and apt are good and solid package management system, much simpler
> than bsd pkg.
> Integration in Debian would be painful (debian-legal), so going the
> ubuntu way and creating a derivate will be good.
>  
> Debian puts GNU userland on the table.
> 
> Indiana shall support SUN userland as well.
> 
> Therfore Indiana might need a GNU and SUN flavour (is tar = gnu tar or
> sun tar, cc = gcc or Sun cc).
>  
> 
> Indiana should get strong where solaris already shines. Make Xterminal
> (aka thin clients) deployments a breeze. 
> 
> Indiana sould offer the "we know how to run and support large and
> advanced environments" way.
> 
> Tailoring the distribution to heavy lifting including desktops
> deployments as the first step get the low hanging fruits. It might take
> some time to get competitive to Linux with device drivers.


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