Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 14:04, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:00 PM Chris wrote: On 2021-01-20 13:32, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:19 PM Chris wrote: > >> On 2021-01-20 12:47, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: >> > In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 13:45, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:39 PM Chris wrote: On 2021-01-20 13:03, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > Am 20.01.21 um 21:47 schrieb Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss: >> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for >> making...: >> >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 13:03, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Am 20.01.21 um 21:47 schrieb Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:00 PM Chris wrote: > On 2021-01-20 13:32, Aurélien Larcher wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:19 PM Chris wrote: > > > >> On 2021-01-20 12:47, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: > >> > In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for > >>

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 13:32, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:19 PM Chris wrote: On 2021-01-20 12:47, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: > In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for > making...: > >> On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 13:19, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 9:47 PM Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: > On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discus

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:39 PM Chris wrote: > On 2021-01-20 13:03, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: > > Am 20.01.21 um 21:47 schrieb Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss: > >> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for > >> making...: > >> > >>> On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney vi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 13:03, Andreas Wacknitz wrote: Am 20.01.21 um 21:47 schrieb Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss]

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 10:19 PM Chris wrote: > On 2021-01-20 12:47, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: > > In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for > > making...: > > > >> On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: > >>> In regard to: Re: [O

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: And one more thing: We share the Sun Solaris ancestry with Oracle Solaris. Some things have diverted during the last decade but the solaris-userland repository is a first-class source of information and inspiration.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 9:47 PM Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for > making...: > > > On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: > >> In regard to: Re: [OpenIndi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 12:47, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: I wo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Andreas Wacknitz
Am 20.01.21 um 21:47 schrieb Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 04:10, Stephan Althaus wrote: Hello! Please keep in mind, that almost every Linux distro has much more manpower to maintain those many packages and DEs. If you volunteer to maintain an other DE for OI  i doubt that this would be a problem for our OI first-level maintainers. M

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 04:09, Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss wrote: In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: I would love to have XFCE. But as I know, the OI devs will not package other DEs. They stay royal to MATE. You can't found any other DE's packages

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 04:01, Aurélien Larcher wrote: On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: I would love to have XFCE. But as I know, the OI devs will not package other DEs. They stay royal to MATE. You can't found any ot

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 03:55, Hung Nguyen Gia wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:46:30 +0700 Chris wrote > On 2021-01-19 22:58, Judah Richardson wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:55 AM Chris wrote: > > > >> Well I was finally able to get OI on one of my spares. > >> I wanted to do so, so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 03:51, Hung Nguyen Gia wrote: On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 13:55:13 +0700 Chris wrote > Well I was finally able to get OI on one of my spares. > I wanted to do so, so that I could start adding/upgrading > some OI packages. As I began looking at the process I > stumbled on dis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-20 00:28, Stephan Althaus wrote: On 01/20/21 08:46, Chris wrote: On 2021-01-19 22:58, Judah Richardson wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:55 AM Chris wrote: Well I was finally able to get OI on one of my spares. I wanted to do so, so that I could start adding/upgrading some OI pack

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Stephan Althaus
Hello! Please keep in mind, that almost every Linux distro has much more manpower to maintain those many packages and DEs. If you volunteer to maintain an other DE for OI  i doubt that this would be a problem for our OI first-level maintainers. Maybe a good starting point for XFCE would be

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Tim Mooney via openindiana-discuss
In regard to: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making...: I would love to have XFCE. But as I know, the OI devs will not package other DEs. They stay royal to MATE. You can't found any other DE's packages on the repo. You might want to review the mailing list archives f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Aurélien Larcher
On Wednesday, January 20, 2021, Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss < openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org> wrote: > I would love to have XFCE. > > But as I know, the OI devs will not package other DEs. They stay royal to MATE. > > You can't found any other DE's packages on the repo. > > There a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss
If you could please have a look at the Trinity DE, too. It's KDE3 indeed. https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ It advertised that it support Linux, FreeBSD and DilOS. DilOS is just another Illumos distro and I confirm that there are tde's packages on DilOS. The sad thing is I can't really get them

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Hung Nguyen Gia via openindiana-discuss
I would love to have XFCE. But as I know, the OI devs will not package other DEs. They stay royal to MATE. You can't found any other DE's packages on the repo. There are packages for many window manager, though. You have to do pretty much anything yourself, with your own repo publisher. BTW, a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-20 Thread Stephan Althaus
Hello Chris! Just in the rare case you did't know it yet, there's joyent pkgsrc where a hole lot of packages are patched to build on Illumos derivates. At least worth to have look at in case of 'problems'. https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/ Greetings, Stephan On 01/20/21 08:46, Chris wrote: On 202

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-19 Thread Chris
On 2021-01-19 22:58, Judah Richardson wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:55 AM Chris wrote: Well I was finally able to get OI on one of my spares. I wanted to do so, so that I could start adding/upgrading some OI packages. As I began looking at the process I stumbled on distribution-constructor

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-19 Thread Judah Richardson
Hi Chris, I'd be most interested in OI KDE spins. Judah On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:55 AM Chris wrote: > Well I was finally able to get OI on one of my spares. > I wanted to do so, so that I could start adding/upgrading > some OI packages. As I began looking at the process I > stumbled on distr

[OpenIndiana-discuss] distribution constructor for making OI spins?

2021-01-19 Thread Chris
Well I was finally able to get OI on one of my spares. I wanted to do so, so that I could start adding/upgrading some OI packages. As I began looking at the process I stumbled on distribution-constructor and thought; why not build up some additional desktop installs. I had intended to build both t