Alberto Ruiz wrote:
I think that the idea is clear, fixing the usability problems of
OpenSolaris
by creating a new binary distro within the opensolaris.org community, as a
community effort.
No it *isn't* clear - what do you mean by "usability problems"? That's
a phrase which is so general as to be meaningless. As I said I had this
conversation with the Indiana folks and they couldn't tell me what they
actually meant when they said "usability problems". Plus there are
already several ongoing projects (/usr/gnu, approachability) that are
already trying to address these sorts of issues. What is Indiana going
to do that isn't already being done, and why is a distro the right
vehicle for addressing usability issues?
I think as a first goal Indiana should identify a comprehensive list of
usability problems for newcomers, and then figure out solutions for that.
It's pretty obvious to me, that all that problems should be implemented
on a
distribution, and some of those implementations might not fix on the
existing ones (which doesn't mean that we cannot take advantage of the work
that is already done).
I think the first thing the Indiana team should do is carry out a
detailed evaluation of all the existing distros and tell us what they
think their strengths and weaknesses are, and how Indiana would be
different. That would have two major benefits:
1. It would help us all understand what the Indiana team think the
issues are with the existing distros, and what they propose to do in
concrete terms.
2. It would provide the existing distros with invaluable feedback on
areas where they need to improve.
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Alan Burlison
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