Updated Branches: refs/heads/master 86f449c30 -> 70824cc9f
[KARAF-2511] Add a note about distributions in the installation page of the users guide Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/commit/70824cc9 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/tree/70824cc9 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/diff/70824cc9 Branch: refs/heads/master Commit: 70824cc9f583d66a6cc4f369a94774e270b52ff3 Parents: 86f449c Author: Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> Authored: Mon Dec 23 13:58:31 2013 +0100 Committer: Jean-Baptiste Onofré <[email protected]> Committed: Mon Dec 23 13:58:31 2013 +0100 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- manual/src/main/webapp/users-guide/installation.conf | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/karaf/blob/70824cc9/manual/src/main/webapp/users-guide/installation.conf ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/manual/src/main/webapp/users-guide/installation.conf b/manual/src/main/webapp/users-guide/installation.conf index 18940b2..87eedb4 100644 --- a/manual/src/main/webapp/users-guide/installation.conf +++ b/manual/src/main/webapp/users-guide/installation.conf @@ -17,6 +17,18 @@ h2. Requirements h2. Using Apache Karaf binary distributions +Apache Karaf is available in two distributions, both as a tar.gz and zip archives. + + +The "default" distribution is a "ready to use" distribution. +The "default" distribution provides the following features enabled. + +The "minimal" distribution is like the minimal distributions that you can find for most of Unix distributions. +Only the core layer is packaged, most of the features and bundles are downloaded from Internet at bootstrap. +It means that Apache Karaf minimal distribution requires an Internet connection to start correctly. +The features provided by the "minimal" distribution are exactly the same as in the "default" distribution, the difference +is that the minimal distribution will download the features from Internet. + h3. Installation on Windows platform NB: the JAVA_HOME environment variable has to be correctly defined. To accomplish that, press Windows key and Break key together, switch to "Advanced" tab and click on "Environment Variables".
