First let me thank all of you for the great help you all gave me with some of the problems I had before. My "edit menus" buttons had not broken again since. It looks like it was installing OpenOffice.org from the installer instead of the IPS that was causing it.
I have been running Solaris 10, OpenSolaris, and now also the Solaris XCE on three separate computers. I am interested in finding one that works well as a desktop because I want to form a business around Solaris. The first thing that jumps out at me is that Solaris 10, as much as I like it is just not suited for the computers I might build to sell. This leaves me with OpenSolaris and SXCE. Now I don't know all the licensing stuff and would work that all out when I actually start to build computers to sell to customers. However I will say that I like OpenSolaris better. SXCE seems to me to be OpenSolaris, just with all the packages from the repository all together on a DVD. One thing that the SXCE lacks that I think is a great part of OpenSolaris is the IPS. I am sure that there is a lot of great technology in SXCE that would make it great for something too technical for me to understand. From a Desktop point of view I see that it comes with StarOffice9 (or StarSuite) and it comes with RealPlayer. It also comes with the Blueprint theme. I also noticed that the Elissa media player works better on SXCE, in that it will close after a long delay as opposed to not closing at all which is what it does on OpenSolaris. But I am not really interested in Elissa, just RealPlayer, StarOffice and the Blueprint theme. So here is what I have done. I saw on Wikipedia that you could use the PKGADD command to get StarOffice off of the SXCE DVD and install it into OpenSolaris. So I did that with StarOffice, RealPlayer, and I tried to do it with the Blueprint theme but all I got was the window boarder. All together this makes for a very good desktop but a question emerges. Anyone who is registered can download the SXCE. Anyone who is registered can download packages from the extras repository. Would it be possible to put StarOffice and RealPlayer in the extras repository? I know that having a CD to download is important for an opensource project but could it be possible to also have a DVD already packed with packages like the SXCE but also include the IPS so that we can get third party software from other repositories? Would it be possible to install the IPS or something like it into the SXCE? One last thing and I hope this makes sense; if a DVD is made possible, would it be possible to make two DVDs, one with lots of stuff for servers but another that is geared to the desktop environment? Where can I get the Blueprint theme to properly install it into OpenSolaris? I kind of like it. All in all, I still like OpenSolaris better. When I use SXCE I find myself wishing it were more like OpenSolaris. SXCE has some packages that I want but once those are added into OpenSolaris I am happy to stay with it. Oh and congratulations, this OS is great and I am hoping to convince everyone at my company (about 50 employees) to start using it. We are a language services company so we have people from many different countries working here who all speak different languages. Needless to say, getting Windows installed in all these different languages is a headache and OpenSolaris looks like a very good cure. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
