Dave Miner wrote: > The project has to have a clear statement of what it will be initially - > is it a desktop that will attract people to OpenSolaris, or a minimal > base core to be used in building a bunch of distros? I believe that Ian > and Glynn have expressed strongly the former.
Yep. In my view, we're first and foremost building a distro that will grow the userbase. We should also have some notion of a core that's the compatibility baseline for derivatives, but I believe that's secondary and can be done as a subsetting exercise once we get to the distro. I strongly agree with "minimalist" though in the sense that we shouldn't ship multiple options--where we can, let's just pick one and make sure it's integrated and works. Missing something? It's just a "pkg install" away; and, if it's something big like KDE, things like "Kindiana" will no doubt emerge. -ian -- Ian Murdock 650-331-9324 http://ianmurdock.com/ "Don't look back--something might be gaining on you." --Satchel Paige _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
