On Wednesday 21 December 2005 05:47 am, Glynn Foster wrote: > Hey, > > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 02:30 -0800, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 December 2005 08:37 pm, Glynn Foster wrote: > > > Interesting. So you're going to swap your user base over to the KDE > > > desktop? Or are you going to try and retro fit both into Nexenta? Won't > > > that be a bit hard for a single CD? :/ > > > > Can't the bulk of packages be installed over the net? That's what I've > > always liked about Debian, install the smallest amount of needed code and > > then apt-get the rest that you need. It just works. > > Yeah, it just wasn't obvious from the comments in the email, that I > thought it would be good to clarify. For the purposes of a Live CD > though, you have to be careful about what default set of packages you > make available to entice people to play around with and install > afterwards - certainly not an easy task my any means.
While I currently only have one Linux system at home, it's being phased out into a gaming machine for my sun...maybe by this weekend...;-) I have used Linux and Embedded Linux quite a bit in the past, and some cases the client would dictate which platform you used. I would always use Debian as my personal Linux, and as such presented problems installing certain packages in regard to that. It doesn't take that long to get a good chunk of what you need with a few commands, and to update and dist-upgrade would take you current at any point. If you're missing something, an apt-get grabs it with the dependancies. This system works very well. The problem with Nexentra is that many of the standard packages of Debian are not ported at this time. They seem to have taken quite a leap, and are well on their way. I think Shillix is interesting if for nothing else than Joerg Schilling is working on it. It is missing (but gathering) needed pieces for a complete system as well. Same with Belenix. All of these system are getting better though, this is good. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
