Ricardo Eureka! wrote:
> 2008/3/10, Brett Eisenberg <brett at librum.org>:
>> I've seen a number of comments throughout the site (announce forum, etc)
>> mentioning this issue, but I haven't seen any action on getting things
>> improved. Since OpenSolaris started to use Sun's Download Center, it is no
>> longer possible to use wget or curl to retrieve iso images. For those of us
>> who maintain remote OpenSolaris machines, this is obviously a disaster.
>> These are exactly the sort of impediments that give Solaris a black eye in
>> the opensource community.
>>
>> How can we as a community get this addressed?
>
> Hello, in the Debian community (and in linux communities in general)
> is very common to set up "mirrors" to avoid this kind of problems.
> Aren't there mirrors of opensolaris? Is there any chance to set up
> one?
OpenSolaris, yes - but SXCE is not just OpenSolaris, but contains
components which cannot be mirrored/redistributed easily. This
is why one of the goals of Project Indiana was to create an
OpenSolaris OS which could be easily mirrored and is even now
bittorrented.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
