On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:26 PM, W. Wayne Liauh <w...@hawaiilinux.org> wrote:
> > 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 > > Simply +1!!!! Best regards, HeCSa. > 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 > -- HeCSa
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