Standard configs. Maybe 'generic' is a better term. I'm not a career Solaris guy, and I know a lot of other new Solaris users like myself that are trying to do what in the Win/Linux world are common, simple tasks. Examples that spring to mind are Samba fileservices, local DNS, simple website/Apache setup. These are things that more users will want to do now that we have Open Solaris in the mix. Granted, Solaris is in some ways overkill for this stuff, but I/we would certainly like to see Solaris take it's rightful place in the low/mid tier market as well as the high end.
Writing up example walkthroughs with actual configurations (conf files, service manifests, flat file configs) listed in the documents would help the Win/Linux crossover crowd a lot I think. I don't know about you, but I always skip to the 'examples' section of a man page if it's available :) Am I making sense? Blake On 5/2/07, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote: > > Greetings. > > This makes sense to me as well. I agree with Michelle, with the caveat > that we not let worrying _too_ deeply on the specific topics/catagories > get in the way of starting to produce tangible material. No matter how > long one thinks on it, a category or three will get missed. If we need > to do a little two-step to decide where a topic fits after the document > is done, at least people have something they can work with. (That's not > to say we just run willy-nilly; I think structure is needed, let's just > not get bogged down in it.) > > I am also curious about what you mean by "standard configs". > > Rainer > > michelle olson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Yep, hardware/driver install is definitely cheatsheet-worthy. We could > > get it posted here and link to it from the laptop or other appropriate > > communities (I think device drivers community is being combined into > > another group or something). Anyways, they have some info, but it > > isn't HowTo, from what I recall and that is what folks need from the > > looks of the osol help alias. I also think your previous list is good > > to start at high level, and we can add specific cheatsheets under > > those bigger topic umbrellas. You also mentioned 'standard' configs, > > care to elaborate there? So we have a better idea of where we're headed? > > > > Thanks, > > Michelle > > > > > > Blake wrote: > > > >> >From now on I guess I'll use 'MS AD' to specify better. > >> > >> My current drama with semi-supported PCI expansion cards for x86 > >> Solaris makes me think that a cheatsheet for hardware/driver installs > >> would be handy. (The device in question is a Syba SATA card with > >> Silicon Image 3114 chipset). > >> > >> Maybe we should start by compiling a list of cheatsheet-worthy topics? > >> > >> Blake > >> > >> On 5/1/07, *Rainer Heilke* < rheilke at dragonhearth.com > >> <mailto:rheilke at dragonhearth.com>> wrote: > >> > >> Just a quick note; AD Integration is integration (of OpenSolaris, > >> probably using Sun LDAP or OpenLDAP) with Microsoft's Active > >> Directory. This is supposedly fairly easy, at least with Sun LDAP, > >> but can get tricky/complex with OpenLDAP or when Jumpstart support > >> is needed within AD's DHCP. It is most certainly a topic that > >> could benefit from a good hands-on guide or cheat sheet. :-) > >> > >> Rainer > >> > >> > >> This message posted from opensolaris.org <http://opensolaris.org> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> docs-discuss mailing list > >> docs-discuss at opensolaris.org <mailto:docs-discuss at > >> opensolaris.org> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 'His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the > >> whole world - samurai movies and the Macintosh - and he understood > >> them far, far too well.' - Snow Crash > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> docs-discuss mailing list > >> docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > docs-discuss mailing list > > docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > > > -- 'His mind was good, but he only understood one or two things in the whole world - samurai movies and the Macintosh - and he understood them far, far too well.' - Snow Crash -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/attachments/20070503/8d8bf9db/attachment.html>
