[indiana-discuss] Re: 3.1) Installation

[Marc Hamilton]

We want to make Indiana downloadable directly from opensolaris.org  
and every [good] mirror site in the world without requiring a sun.com  
account or Sun download center login or even opensolaris.org  
registration. It should be as easy and simple as possible to  
download. I can download Mozilla, quicktime, acrobat, and tons of  
other software without any authentication other than perhaps giving  
an email address so why should Indiana be any different?



On Jun 15, 2007, at 9:38 AM, Alberto Ruiz wrote:

>
>
> 2007/6/15, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com>:
>
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> > b) forget about zipping the image
>
> Its perfectly reasonable to compress the image and saves bandwidth  
> and time.
>
> Nope it's not, to unzip, you need to waste almost the double space  
> in the local hard disk, sometimes, if you run out of space, it's  
> really painful to unzip it (or impossible). DVD images are not  
> small, and you don't save that much bandwith since most of the DVDs  
> are packages already compressed.
>
> > c) provide the images through the portal just by using  
> authentication
> >    of individuals with their portal accounts.
>
> It would be nice to somehow tie the authentication of OpenSolaris.org
> accounts to the download center, but that again is a Sun issue.
>
> Bad idea, OpenSolaris != Sun. And OpenSolaris != (only) SXD/CE
>
> -- 
> Un saludo,
> Alberto Ruiz
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Marc Hamilton
Vice President, Solaris Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Phone: (310)607-2450
http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton



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