I totally agree--there are many good "messages" that come from producing a multiboot DVD--and maybe it's something we do periodically in addition to sep. Distros, or even as Glynn suggested tutorial and training modules. Physical media is a beautiful thing once in a while to complement the online community activity and distributions.
LKR W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
A week ago, there was a two-part series of report entitled: "Please Give Solaris More Applauses" (in Chinese): http://taiwan.cnet.com/enterprise/features/0,2000062876,20103443,00.htm http://taiwan.cnet.com/enterprise/features/0,2000062876,20103443-2,00.htm in which the author, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, touted the superior advantages of Solaris, both as an OS for servers as well as for desktops. In the introductory paragraphs, he voiced his displeasure that Solaris has not received the kind of attention it deserves. Personally, I don't see how OpenSolaris could receive its deserved attention (and respect) if no one outside the existing Solaris community can install it. This inadequacy IMNSHO has a lot to do with the relative lack of attention paid to hardware drivers in Sun's own official releases. I keep five PCs (desktops and notebooks) in my little personal lab. So far, without outside helps, I have not been able to make a functional Solaris system out of any of these machines (the problems mostly had to do with lack of NIC or video drivers). Ironically, I have NO problem running either NexentaOS or Belenix on ANY of these five machines. A multi-boot highly-compressed DVD containing among other things the three OpenSolaris LiveCDs and Blastwave packages should help answering this intriguing question as to why this superduper OS has not received the kind of attention it seserves in certain parts of the world. I would like to see this becoming an ongoing effort. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
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