Hi Mark,

I'm sure some more people will join us as soon as we define a date for the
event.

As you said, I prefer if we organize the event on a evening, better than a
saturday.

Regards,

Javi

On Nov 21, 2007 4:14 PM, Mark Furner <mark.furner at gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi Gilles
>
> Well well, nice surprise.
>
> On Wednesday 21 November 2007, Gilles Gravier (Gilles Gravier
> <Gilles.Gravier at sun.com>) may have written:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Nevada and Indiana ... :)
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > Big DVD for full install.
>
> Yeah, hmm, it was rather a pain. But I found it easier to reinstall than
> to
> upgrade. (OK, I'm mainly a Linux user but without fear of trying things
> out
> and hosing my own gear).
>
> >
> > Indiana is "distro" based on OpenSolaris. Slim and trim. One CD
> > installation. Network based package manager (a great change from Sun's
> > old pkgadd). You install just one CD (fast download, fast install), the
> > CD is actually a Live CD so you can boot and run it off the CD. Once
> > installed, you can download extra packages form the net (a la Synaptics,
> > for those of you familiar with Ubuntu).
>
> Sounds very cool. Thanks for the clarification on Indiana vs Nevada. OK.
> This
> new package manager sounds cool. pkgadd was/is a drag compared to APT.
> I'll
> try this installer on said unfortunate laptop, at the risk of getting
> beaten
> up by the wife if she can't use it for a few days afterwards... ;-)
>
> >
> > I could come and do a short presentation of Indiana during next meeting
> > if people are interested.
>
> A presentation would be interesting, but oddly enough at the moment there
> seem
> to be only 2 takers for a meeting...
>
> Regards
>
> Mark
>
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > ug-chosug mailing list
> > > ug-chosug at opensolaris.org
> > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> ug-chosug mailing list
> ug-chosug at opensolaris.org
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-chosug
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: 
<http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-chosug/attachments/20071121/9c9d9b31/attachment.html>

Reply via email to