Alan DuBoff writes: > > You'll find all those non-ON things Bonnie mentioned on the web site > > today. What more did you want? > > > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ > > So, someone shows up to eat dinner. Instead of a meal presented to them on a > plate, there's a bag of groceries to prepare.
Right. > How many of those folks do you think will come back and eat at this > resturaunt > again? I'd be disappointed, too, if I walked into a grocery store and expected restaurant service. The checkout people would probably be just as puzzled by my order. ;-} If they wanted a restaurant instead of a grocery store, they should have looked up "restaurants" instead. 'Solaris Express' is one such restaurant. 'BeleniX' is another. 'SchilliX' a third. And so on. > Why assemble ON even? Why not make them assemble that themself and add > whatever device drives they need? Maybe the SPARC miniroot can be brought > down in size that way so it can fit easily on a CD. The consolidations are groups of (sometimes loosely) related software that are built and developed together. Within each consolidation, you've got a bunch of projects. A group of consolidations gives you a WOS -- wad of stuff -- and that's what we (Sun) put into our own distribution. ON is "assembled" because that's what's convenient for development work. We could certainly break it down into smaller parts, provided that we take care of the hidden dependencies among those parts such that they can be built and developed separately. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
