On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:52:30PM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: > It appears to me that opensolaris-discuss is becoming more and more > dominated with Solaris installation questions, and the OpenSolaris > content is becoming lost in the noise. Whilst it is very nice that > people are being so helpful, it would seem to me that we should either > be directing people elsewhere (e.g. BigAdmin) or set up a new list > (opensolaris-newbies?) for installation and getting-started questions. > > What do people think?
I agree; this is why we set up opensolaris-help. But even there, questions should be about getting up and running (or up and developing) with an OpenSolaris-based distribution, not S10 or anything else. And specific questions like "How can I get my e1000g NIC to work?" are probably better answered by a distribution-specific list or in a relevant community group. The intent for -help was, iirc, to answer questions like "Why did my build fail?" and "Where is the source for foo?" As for opensolaris-discuss, I don't really care. Noise from newbies is the least of that list's problems. I always recommend unsubscribing from it but I guess people are masochists. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
