Hi :) That's exactly what you get, a subset of OI. And that's exactly what we do over XStreamOS: infrastructure with postfix, amavis, cyrus, apache, squid, tomcat, ipfilter, ldap, and...and... :) we will be releasing an iso of XStream Server, with all these stuff preconfigured and a web installer.
And our WebTop Groupware ajax webapp :) Stay tuned! Inviato da iPad Il giorno 20/set/2012, alle ore 21:08, Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz <jose.marcio...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >> Hi, sure boot environments are there, inside illumos kernel. >> About networked installtion, probably this is a different thing. >> If I well remember, there was some kind of software you may add to Solaris >> 10 to make it a >> network installation server, do you think it's still available and usable >> with illumos? > > Well, my 2 cents, > > I haven't yet looked at your distribution, but I'll surely do. > > What I expect from a Illumos distribution is something like a subset of > openindiana. > > I'm a SunOS user for almost 20 years. We use it for infrastructure (DNS, > mail, DHCP, LDAP, web ...) servers. We usually compile ourselves these > applications (sendmail, bind, apache, php, mysql, ... and even gcc), so we > need just a little more than a nude OS. > > Sometimes it may be hard to define what we can compile what what we rely on. > Mainly on libraries. We can rely on stable (or quite stable libraries) such > as libxml and so, but we use a home compiled version of openssl, as it's > frequently updated after security vulnerabilities. > > A network installation server is near a must. There were jumpstart and AI. > When you have some dozen of servers to install, an automated way to install > from network is a MUST, in order to have homogeneous installations. > > A GUI installer is a plus for me, but a must for people having to install > just a hand of physical computers. > > A desktop ??? Almost all current servers (e.g. PowerEdge line of Dell > servers) have a graphics card. I don't need to run office or user > applications, but it's a good idea to have a windowing environment to run > some terminal windows on the console when you have problems which you can't > solve with remote access. Just a way to have multiple terminal windows is > enough. A gnome environnment without office applications is a plus, but not > necessary. > > Well, this are my needs. Other people may surely think differently, > > Best regards, > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Da: Jim Klimov >> A: Discussion list for OpenIndiana >> Data: 20 settembre 2012 13.50.50 CEST >> Oggetto: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] XStreamOS distro available >> On 2012-09-20 08:40, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: >> Hi, >> this is a bare distribution featuring just the illumos kernel and dependency >> packages, >> just the minimum requirements + gcc. >> Is this your take at becoming the reference distro for development >> and lightweight-footprint testing of development for illumos-gate? ;) >> I am not sure if the distro for such dev/test purposes (or a server) >> needs to be cluttered with GUI installer and desktop as others suggest; >> at most - as optional packages. >> If so, does it also support boot environments and perhaps networked >> installation (over PXE or the likes)? Some sort of automated installer >> to initialize racks of servers or new test VMs with a new kernel build - >> now that would be a useful feature for the purpose. >> My 2c, >> //Jim >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss >> > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
