[indiana-discuss] Re: Tim's 0.02

[Eric Boutilier]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tim Foster wrote:
> 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,

Just chiming in to underscore the above. Package management
with network-based package repository is, and has been for
far too long, an enormous glaring hole in OpenSolaris. (I'd
even like to see the Indiana project focus all its forces on
*just that one issue* for the initial phase of the project.)

With that in mind, it's great to see Moinak participating
here on indiana-discuss because (Moinak, correct me if I'm
overstating things here) he and Laca (pkgbuild author, and
JDS engineer) are apparently joining forces to attack that
very issue in the form of a project called pkgbase. And that
work fits right into the Indiana project -- both in terms of
common objectives and fortunate timing.

Excellent! :-)

Eric


> 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
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