James Dickens wrote:
All 5 current distrobutions are currently handicaped. There are lack the ability of including close bits that are included by Solaris Express. Untill everything is open it has advantages that no other distrobution can have why not include what the community has created.
Handycapped how? I'm not sure what it is that you want in a distro that isn't already available in the open.
What if Sun isn't the one that does it, but the community as a whole votes on what it wants, will Sun allow us to submit a request to incdude what the Community wants in its special "community release"
By your words, Sun IS the one doing it, the community simply would be applying pressure.
We all want things to go, not just into SX:CR, but into S10 Updates as well. Everyones list is diffrent. Thats where distros really shine, because each caters to a diffrent group of people. Even still, yes, there are some things that aren't open yet, sometimes thats an issue, many times its not. Lord knows I want desprately to make Enlightenment a standard part of the install, I've got my list too.
One way to resolve this is to create downloadable "Booster Packs"; your own CCD if you will. People could download all the things you want and install them on top of the OS without having to integrate through the development procedures. I did such a thing with SIDEkick.
Changing just SX:CR isn't without its potential problems and its a lot of work. If we, in the community, can do all that work and Sun just needs to give a thumbs up or down, I'm willing to join such an effort. However, if we're just going to use apply pressure untill it happens, forcing the work on someone else, I'm not.
In the (hopefully) very near future there will be ways to make proposals like this through solid channels within our OpenSolaris community so that there is a bit more order.
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