[indiana-discuss] Thinking about an OpenSolaris Media kit

[Glynn Foster]

Hey,

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>>  Over the last couple of days or so, I've started to think about the media kits a
>>  little more, particularly with respect to http://get.opensolaris.org for the
>>  OpenSolaris release, but also in terms of being able to create derivations
>>  targeting specific sets of our potential user base.
>>
>>  As I see it, I think it should be possible to create a generic framework that
>>  would allow us to swap in and out components, depending on that focus - with the
>>  addition of more CD's depending on the focus.
> 
> Going one step farther:
> 
> I'm assuming this means that people could go to the media kit website,
> pick out the modules they want (within a given size limitation) and
> then order that particular combo?

Perhaps - maybe you only produce them on demand based on what conferences are 
coming up, for example.

> I would like to see the entire desktop be a module. That is, all of
> the GNOME-specific desktop stuff as one big module. That way folks
> could easily add on their own desktop of choice (i.e. XFCE, KDE,
> however).
> 
> Alternatively, one big "GUI" module, so folks could get a strictly
> "console-based" experience for servers, etc. :)
> 
> These are great ideas!

Sure, sounds reasonable.

thanks for the feedback.


Glynn