I agree with what Peter and Garrett wrote earlier. OI is lacking a clear
vision. It should be different than other illumos distros' as well to avoid
duplicating work unnecessarily.
I think, OI could be illumos hacker distro, and:
- carry on providing GUI support, good enough for illumos hackers
On 2013-05-10 02:19, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
There is little commercial future in the desktop for Linux distributions as
well yet almost all of them have a graphical desktop.
I would be entirely *unsurprised* if distro vendors like RedHat and Oracle
simply *ditched* their desktop support at
Andrzej,
Your vision is pretty much the same one I had. The challenge is this:
Existing releng process and contribution process prevent anything from
happening though. I would like to help to change that.
How?
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote:
On
On 10 May 2013 12:54, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote:
Well, Oracle does provide and promote SunRays ...
Actually, if you check the SunRay forums people are getting the impression
that Oracle does _not_ promote SunRays, and some of their sales guys are
actively trying to dissuade people from
On 2013-05-10 14:11, Jonathan Adams wrote:
On 10 May 2013 12:54, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru
mailto:jimkli...@cos.ru wrote:
Well, Oracle does provide and promote SunRays ...
Actually, if you check the SunRay forums people are getting the
impression that Oracle does _not_ promote
On 2013-05-10 13:43, Andrzej Szeszo wrote:
I agree with what Peter and Garrett wrote earlier. OI is lacking a clear
vision. It should be different than other illumos distros' as well to
avoid duplicating work unnecessarily.
I think, OI could be illumos hacker distro, and:
- carry on providing
On 10 May 2013 14:13, Jim Klimov jimkli...@cos.ru wrote:
Are there many (any?) OI-private deviations from illumos-gate?
I thought it was built with the vanilla kernel already.
I don't believe that KVM is in the default Illumos kernel, but is in OI.
I don't know whether the planned new
What if we created a branch from the kernel that would then allow
portability across all platforms. Kinda like the Motorola / Android /
Ubuntu project they had a few years back. In the project they had 1
android phone that when placed on a dock was able to use the android
kernel and run an
Garrett proposed a Reference Distro around September last year that is
pretty much what you suggested:
http://gdamore.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-case-for-new-reference-distro-for.html
Jon
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The question remains, if it really needs to be IPS based.
Or if it can be SVR4 and CSW style pkgutil.net.
If you read Garrett's mails he also asked this question from time to time,
just the day before yesterday again.
But rather than just getting lost in endless discussions, I rather continue
For what it is worth: CSW existed before OpenIndiana.
I never understood why Sun refused to adopt something like pkgutil (or its
predecessor), but insisted on re-inventing the wheel.
Instead Sun created IPS from scratch (with a lot of inspiration from conary
and Foresight Linux, which they were
+1 for support another packages then IPS
DEB for example.
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Igor Kozhukhov
On May 10, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
The question remains, if it really needs to be IPS based.
Or if it can be SVR4 and CSW style pkgutil.net.
If you read Garrett's mails he also asked
ouch, forgive the types, I'm on the run
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On May 10, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote:
The question remains, if it really needs to be IPS based.
Or if it can be SVR4 and CSW style pkgutil.net.
If you read Garrett's mails he also asked this question from time to time,
just the day before yesterday again.
I would certainly be interested in a OpenSXCE x86_64.
From: Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org
To: OpenIndiana Developer mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [oi-dev] Orange Indiana?
The question remains, if it really needs to be IPS based.
Or if
I use pkgsrc on SmartOS. I think it also works on OI, so I have no use really
for IPS. Plus there is OpenCSW.
From: Garrett D'Amore garrett.dam...@dey-sys.com
To: OpenIndiana Developer mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [oi-dev] Orange
Wow, there is some incredibly interesting reads in the mailing list
lately. I have been following it with great interest.
I have been giving it a lot of thought lately. And especially
OpenIndiana. Let's begin with saying Illumos is great. And OpenIndiana
has the potential of being great. But at
Thank you Garrett, all.
Ok, I don't like to dictate anything.
Just try and C.
Q:
When will it ship.
A:
In the past I never held a single date, to make such predictions is usually
difficult.
This time, though, it is different, because during creation of the SPARC
version, I modified all pkgdefs
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