If you are worried about resources, step 1 would be to get rid of direct downloads. Or you get the following: casual user downloads, casual user runs, casual user finds problem, casual user doesn't have forums to get help, casual user leave. 1 download worth of bandwidth wasted. And that's the main source of bandwidth, users trying it out.
There is nothing bad about having forums and mailing lists. Looking at the casual user, not that many want to subscribe and send emails and wait forever. I keep bringing casual user, because I seriously doubt at this point anyone is going to use OI for production, esp. with great and mature open source alternatives like FreeBSD out there. If you don't have the adequate support (i.e. at least forums and a NON-outdated wiki), then you will drive many potential users away and will become "just another distro on distrowatch" whose users are the devs and a handful fanboys. -- Lyubomir Grigorov (bgalakazam) _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
