> The best of all worlds, IMHO, would be for us (the > community) to build > and maintain a website of our own that hosted a > minimalist distro of > our own, with IPS repos of our own, using only the > master mercurial > (and/or whatever) source repos mirrored from within > Oracle. > Explicitly NOT a fork, and explicitly NOT an Oracle > product, it would > provide desperately needed direction and coherence > for our community. > > One significant hurdle is that not all of the current > OGB members feel > they can devote the significant quantities of their > limited energy, > resources and time that such an undertaking would > entail - a situation > that applies, I'm sure, to many others in our > community... > > -John
I like the idea of a minimalist distro, backed by a robust IPS. This is something which probably should have been started in the first place (instead of the current IMHO impossible mess). Now that you mentioned this great idea of putting together a minimalist distro, has anyone ever thought about Milax? I have only taken a short cut and tried to install it in VirtualBox, but have not succeeded. Has any successfully installed and run Firrefox 3.6.6 and OpenOffice.org 3.2 in Milax? The website seems to indicate that we can run SVR4 and IPS packages in Milax? Furthermore, a couple years ago, there was a shockingly beautiful desktop-oriented true OpenSolaris derivative (meaning IPS-based) coming from Japan called LifeWithSolaris (or JARIS, JApan solaRIS). This site was shut down by, as this little dirty mind of mine has always strongly suspected, one of Sun's people (but not one of its developers). There was a strong reason for my suspension but I have zero proof. I am wondering whether there is any way to locate this developer. At a time like this, he or she can be very helpful. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
