[indiana-discuss] Quick brainstorm on the 'Welcome to...' guide

[Jennifer Pioch]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
>  With a release coming up in the not too distant future, it's time to have a
>  think about what a 'Welcome to ...' guide might look like.
>
>  What we currently have, for those running DP 1 or 2, is the following -
>
>  file:///usr/share/doc/getting-started/html/index.html
>
>  Dave had a great suggestion that this page should really be split up into two
>  parts - one page for displaying during the LiveCD experience, and one page for
>  displaying after it has been installed.
>
>  This makes sense for a lot of reasons, since the things you may care about
>  during the LiveCD experience would be based on how to partition your machine
>  ready for an installation, the system requirements needed during the install, or
>  the driver support that may not be available for your hardware. Conversely,
>  after it is installed, you might care more about installing additional software,
>  or starting to use some of the OpenSolaris features like ZFS, or DTrace, or
>  figuring out how to configure your network.
>
>  For now, let's assume the latter and brainstorm around what people might expect
>  to find?
>
>
>   Welcome to OpenSolaris OS [release number]
>     Basic
>          - What software is currently available for me to
>                  - check email
>                  - browse the web
>                  - write a document
>          - How to get additional packages
>                  - introduction to IPS, and the package repositories
>          - How to get your network up and running
>                  - network automagic
>                  - limitations with the network GNOME system tool
>          - What are the limitations (FAQ style guide?) and how you
>            might solve those issues
>                  - playing different media formats like mp3, aac
>                  - playing DVDs
>     Advanced (technologies we might want to promote)
>          - Working with ZFS
>          - Working with DTrace
>          - Working with CIFS
>          - Others from -
>            http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/docs-index/
>     Social
>          - Help us by submitting your hardware details
>          - Where can you get more support
>
>
>  What would you expect to see? Is there anything missing?

Overview and guide to the new shell features (i.e. ksh93 guide)?

Jenny
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Jennifer Pioch, Uni Frankfurt