Thank you very much for such a detailed response, actually yes, Openindiana-desktop, is more clear than the LiveCD, it makes sense.
I will read the links you sent. Thanks again for all your work. BR Gab On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Gabriel, > > On 01/17/11 10:07 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: >> >> Thanks! >> A place to start is a place to start, and an stable server release is >> the most urgent one among all the other options. > > Great - thanks for the feedback! > >> Some people is talking about the server-desktop question, I >> particularly liked the old Solaris software groups concept (reduced >> network, core, end user, entire)... woulnt it be posible to have a non >> stable distro featuring the full range of up to date software, and a >> stable conservative one (behind in innovation but ahead in stability) >> allowing to either just keep the fully suported core of software or to >> add as well a less supported desktop enviroment?. Wouldnt this be >> almost same effort, example: > > Well, the thing is, this is already the case. All people have to do is use > the Text Installer ISO (Or the Automated Installer ISO) - this installs a > much smaller subset of software which doesn't include the full Gnome desktop > software. Effectively the text installer ISO is the "server release" and the > Live CD ISO is the "desktop release". Perhaps we need to name them such to > avoid the confusion, as it seems a lot of people on-list are confused about > this. > > Unfortunately the Text Installer still installs quite a "fat" install, due > to some packaging that needs improvement. Alan Coopersmith pointed us at > some bugs on bugs.opensolaris.org related to this which was pretty helpful: > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7010355 > - splitting tk bindings out of the core python package > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7010324 > - splitting X apps out of the core groff package > > http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6574610 > - splitting glib out of the gnome-base-libs package > > The only differences between a server install and a desktop install are the > packages installed, and they're already split up into fairly reasonable > incorporations. I think the situation with OpenSolaris only having a > graphical LiveCD for so long has led people to think that OpenSolaris and > thus OpenIndiana is mainly a desktop OS. > > So I am starting to think that we should rename the Live CD to > OpenIndiana-Desktop and the Text Installer to OpenIndiana-Server. > > Ideally the graphical installer, Caiman, would let you choose which package > incorporations to install. But unfortunately I think it does a "dumb" > install from a cpio archive. > > Perhaps refactoring of Caiman is needed, where the Live CD ships with a pkg > repo, starts a pkg server, and does an install from that. Not sure how > feasible this would be. Given how complete pkg is, probably not all that > hard. > > Cheers, > > Alasdair > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
