[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] Indiana desktop UI spec - early draft

[W. Wayne Liauh]

> > What is a typical OpenSolaris user expected to be?
> 
> (I should perhaps have said "Indiana" rather than
> "OpenSolaris" there,
> to make it clear that I was referring only to the
> desktop environment
> that will be delivered on the Live CD in May.)
> 
> That's obviously a key question.  Hopefully Glynn can
> chime in and
> remind us of the most up-to-date definition of
> Indiana's target
> audience, but the phrase I tend to keep in my head is
> "making Solaris
> broadly accessible and more familiar to the Linux
> developer population".
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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> CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer       Sun
> Microsystems Ireland

Do you see a conflict b/t the emphasis on "desktop environment" and the phrase "Linux developer population"?  If not (as I expect), does this mean that Indiana/OpenSolaris LiveCD may also target joe and jane users who are targets of Linux desktop developers?  In other words, is it not totally out of the question to pursue the goal of envisioning OpenSolaris as, "someday", a replacement of the Windows/Mac OS?  Thanks.
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