[osol-mktg] Re: reference distribution

[Eric Boutilier]

Excellent!

On Sun, 6 May 2007, Moinak Ghosh wrote:
> Eric Boutilier wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Stephen Lau wrote:
>>> Tim Foster wrote:
>>>> Do any of the existing distributions do what's being suggested ?
>>>> [ a freely distributable reference distribution of OpenSolaris ]
>>>
>>> Not to my knowledge.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Schillix being the closest to Solaris would seem like a candidate,
>>>> though it hasn't been updated in a while.
>>>>
>>>> Belenix has a wow-factor that's pretty cool, and fits on one CD, but
>>>> doesn't ship the JDS consolidation.
>>
>> The Belenix project has definitely laid almost all the
>> necessary groundwork though. So just add JDS to Belenix;
>> then, for a gentoo-like update mechanism, add in pkgbuild
>> (the JDS/SFE build-recipes repository and tools).
>
>   After the upcoming 0.6 release, BeleniX will be migrating completely to
>   pkgbuild and SFE and the DVD version will have complete JDS. Version
>   0.6 will have SVR4 packaging for a variety of stuff including ON, various
>   drivers, Xorg 7.2 based on X Consolidation, but with complete modular
>   Xorg tree, etc.
>
>   It is too much of work to fully move to pkgbuild in 0.6, as there are
>   several other changes (GNU parted, Extended partitions, Compiz etc.). So
>   it will be done after that release.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.