Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress

2013-05-17 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Sure, sources will be available very soon. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 via Santa Maria Valle 3 - 20123 - Milano - Italy http://www.sonicle.com -- Da: Bayard G. Bell A:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress

2013-05-17 Thread cpforum
> 5. On the app side, being able to choose between OpenOffice and > LibeOffice is a good option, especially since their will be some feature > differences. Having both Open and LibreOffice is a needless work. Taking the best (all Linux distro offer now LibreOffice) and making it reliable inst

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress

2013-05-17 Thread Bayard G. Bell
Will you be complying with CDDL by publishing source at the same time the rest of the distribution is available? On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:28 +0200, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Hi everyone, > at Sonicle we've almost finished rebuilding a brand new IPS repo with updated > packages from > latest illumo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress

2013-05-17 Thread finid
At this point I think it would be better to hear from current OI devs. They might not necessarily agree with what Alasdair had to say about maintaining OI. There are degrees of complexity and what's complicated for one might not be for another. -- finid On 2013-05-17 12:53, Gabriele Bulf

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress

2013-05-17 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
The reason why Sonicle decided to run their own distro, is because we need a self mantained one as a base for our customers solutions. Also, note that also Alasdair mentioned about the difficulty of mantaining OI. Actually OI is way too complicated, too many different build systems for different

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sonicle XStreamOS repo and XStream Desktop in progress

2013-05-17 Thread Gabriele Bulfon
Hi, you can find our initial text-based version iso here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xstreamos/ This has no GUI at all, slim initial version. We will be publishing the new IPS repo for pkg update, and a new base iso both text and desktop very soon. Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 02