[indiana-discuss] "Where do I download OpenSolaris" Ian Murdock

[Ché Kristo]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll respond to things where I can

> I felt like I was jumping back to Linux circa '98 and fbsd around the same time when the ports system was being heavily developed. 

Agreed...there is work being done on the packaging system, take a look at the [u]Indiana Problem Statement[/u]: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/documents/problem_statement/ in particular. [u]3.2 Package Management[/u]. Although if you are looking at a build system see [u]PKG-5[/u].

>Second, put Xen in the front row.  We need to see that we can pop a Windows or other installation right in at the onset of installation (well, I mean immediately following installation).  Give us a nice gui like that which exists for ZFS and take folks by the hand so that we know that a VMware/Parallels like solution is right there waiting for us to utilize.

I'll second that, a user friendly implementation that provides similar functionality to VMWare workstation would work a treat, at the moment you have to use the VNC client to "remotely" connect to your Xen Guest OS, not exactly intuitive...and setting up that Guest is another story.

>Third, give us zfs config and installation by default.

I'm pretty sure that ZFS default is a design goal, i'll be pretty surprised if it isn't

>I would also add some polish to the installer.

You can download a demo of the new dwarf-caiman installer here: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/files/SUNWgui-install-x86.pkg or if you are willing to run the latest Solaris Express Community Edition (NV70) you can use the real thing, see Dave Miner's blog entry: http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/try_out_the_dwarf_caiman

Also you can take a look at the screenshots here: http://www.gnome.org/%7Egman/gui-install/

>Things also *seem* slow when you get into X.  I don't know why, but it just seems generally slower than XF86 or Xorg on an ubuntu distro, gentoo, etc. 

Try the help forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=31

>I'll probably come back with many more suggestions if I find some time to install Nevada again and try to get netatalk going.

Thanks again for your constructive feedback.
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