[indiana-discuss] Some user feedback

[Glynn Foster]

On 3/10/2008, at 8:58 AM, alan mcclellan wrote:

> Friend of mine recently set up OpenSolaris and sent me the following  
> feedback, which I thought others might be interested in. -alan

Definitely, thanks!

> - So once I got my browser working I googled for "coolstack" and  
> went to the Sun download center to grab the LAMP stack (er, Solaris  
> AMP stack) to install.  The cool Sun Download Manager is a Java  
> WebStart (jnlp) file.  And the Firefox that was bundled and  
> installed on my OpenSolaris box didn't know what to do with it.   
> Fortunately I knew I could save it to a file, and then run it from  
> the command line via "/usr/bin/javaws <foo>.jnlp", but that's  
> another one that I would think should "just work".

Any reason why they didn't think of pulling the packages from  
pkg.opensolaris.org, and went to look for coolstack?


Glynn