Anil Gulecha wrote: > On 7/15/07, Ananth Shrinivas <Ananth.Shrinivas at sun.com> wrote: >> This is how the upcoming Solaris installer looks like: >> http://www.gnome.org/~gman/gui-install/ >> >> The latest code drop from the livemedia project contains a package that >> has the binary bits of the the installer. >> >> Few more details on Dave's blog: >> http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/indiana_installer_prototype >> >> > > These look sweet! > > My only addition to this would be to replace the static text in the > last step to a presentation of the various featurs of the distribution > as in Windows.(the pics could explain DTrace, ZFS, Zones, Sun Studio > 12, etc)
The text isn't static. The design doc talks about a "Channel Service" which displays arbitrary marketing data. > > Otherwise Caiman is very intuitive should help linux users try OS more freely. Yep. Really ! OpenSolaris UI designs are getting better of late :-) Cheers, Ananth