Re: [oi-dev] Support OI and illumos for GSoC 2012

2012-03-17 Thread Igor Kozhukhov
Hello All, Let me introduce DilOS. It is - demo/development environment for VMs with text mode only(should be using by SSH) - without GUI - based on DPKG+APT. I planed DilOS as illumian-experimental - where we can test packages before integration to illumos-userland. illumian will have the same

Re: [oi-dev] Support OI and illumos for GSoC 2012

2012-03-17 Thread Bayard Bell
Milan, The basic checklist includes build from source. Students are doing that on VBox (because it's free) and coming back very confused because it's not fit for purpose. We're simply providing students with known-good configs so that they can spend their time actually looking at code and

Re: [oi-dev] Support OI and illumos for GSoC 2012

2012-03-17 Thread Alasdair Lumsden
Hi Bayard, I think your comments regarding VBox being not-fit-for-purpose for Illumos/OI development are completely valid and worth mentioning. What are the plans regarding recruiting students onto GSoC? I'm not familiar with how the whole process works. Is this something we need to advertise