> My contention is that this live CD is oriented at a desktop client, not a 
> file server

I don't know what demographic Sun is looking at for Indiana, but I can tell you 
that the part of the internet that I come from is perhaps exclusively 
interested in opensolaris as a ZFS file server.  So to leave that out would be 
a missed opportunity to say the least.  It should be pretty obvious by now that 
ZFS is at least as popular as opensolaris itself...  ( 
http://www.google.com/trends?q=zfs%2C+dtrace%2C+opensolaris&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
 )  

Every linux distro has GNU and gnome or KDE.  Nobody has ZFS.  To not 
capitalize on ZFS in every way possible would be, I'd say, not good. :)


> Since we don't yet have a JRE that can be included

It was my understanding that the JRE would be included, so it would make sense 
to plan for that. (Ian Murdock on this: 
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134939#134939 )

I also see from Moinak and Anil that the JRE is reasonably sized:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134668#134668 
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=134696#134696


> As the native CIFS support is expected "soon"

I thought there was only a CIFS client project, not a CIFS server project. :(  
Can you point me to the CIFS server project?

As far as the space of individual components like webmin and smcserver and 
Samba and SWAT go, I obviously don't know what will fit and what won't.  All I 
can say is that from my experience as a casual SXCE user, I wasn't able to do 
much of anything with SXCE without those tools.  And it took me hours of 
tinkering just to read about their existence via google searches.  So I think 
it would be a disservice to other new users to leave them obscured (or even 
worse removed) from Indiana.
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