In regards to the first bullet point, something that could accelerate the conception of OpenSolaris distros would be an installer building kit. It should allow building different types of installers, from constructing a simple RAM disk suited to execute user code (custom made installer), to an barebones installer that sets up a OS core installation followed by custom code/script execution, up to a supplied installer that does the basic plumbing that can be branded and supplied user defined package lists.
An idea of mine would be a scenario where the user downloads a mini ISO based on such a barebones installer, that sets up a core installation with a compiler infrastructure and working network, then autoruns a script that wgets and compiles all components required, like userland, X11, Gnome et al. I'd like to do something like this myself, the scripting isn't the issue, but building an installer and ISO is. Regards. -mg This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
