Hello, Solaris is an elaborate, advanced and secure operating system which has so far been in the realm of IT professionals, so much so that the standalone products such as the Ultra 10 workstation has been intended for the tech-savvy professional.
[b]hdesktop[/b] is a product intended to be a desktop, initially for the Solaris familiar professional who would love to take a solaris desktop home. But gradually the product is to be shaped as a secure desktop with "no-settings-to-do" secure environment, with specialized hardware, a GUI that requires that has a completely non-technical interface and so on. A brief description of this project is at www.isolatednetworks.com/hdesktop.htm The tasks outlined in the page may appear very basic, but that it the idea: Attention to the basics from the Technically Advanced Professionals. The idea is to scale down a sun server into that of a desktop, to a level of usage ease, yet secure enough for someone whose idea of virus and worm protection is an anti-bacterial casing. Project Phases: 1. The basic phase: A "crude box"is built up as a prototype with an Asus M2 NP VM motherboard with nVidea and an amd athelon processor 3600. The Hardware compatiblility list has been consulted in deciding on this board. But three attempts to install, each time a different version, Solaris 10, 1/06. 06/06 and now 11/06 - all resulted in some minor compatiblity issue, which should be solvable: 1. The display resolution now is 800x640. 2) The network is not detected 3) star office in Java Desktop does not install 4) the cursor is invisible on re-log in, but appears if the machine is restarted. The first phase to get it all working. It would help if a few of the solaris professionals at Bangalore / Chennai can physically examine the hardware and go over the installation and patching routine. 2. Hardware redesign: I talked about this product and how it all makes strategic sense for Sun but the crucial observation is that this product also has a motherboard and a processor, like any other desktop manufactured by any other company. So, the hardware needs to be differentiated, unique engineered. Motherboard, yes, but of what unique features ??? And about custom casing, with security features... 3. Software bundling: Here the focus is to "minimise" componets, improve desktop features (Java Desktop) and make the product secure for someone allergic to command prompt and technical terms. This proposal comes from a company with commercial intent, which wishes to discover ways by which it could reciprocate the help taken ... Muthusamy Sivasubramanian, India. http://www.isolatednetworks.com/hdesktop.htm weblogs.java.net/blog/isolatednetworks[b][/b] This message posted from opensolaris.org
