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Re: Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro
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Oct 7, 2005 8:45 AM
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Hi,
This project initially just started as a learning experience to understand
how x86 boot and miniroot work. But later it progressed to a stage where we
found that a complete distro is possible.
The initial aim was to get a GNU/Solaris distro and Solaris compatibility option
was later decided to be kept as well.
Another aim is to popularise OpenSolaris among the local OSS community where
it is almost a non-entity as yet. The best way to do this as of now is to
develop a distro locally - folks will hopefully be more interested on stuff
coming out of their backyard, and done by people who they regularly interact
with (I regularly attend the local OSS meets). Makes an impact.
Also IMHO it is beneficial to OpenSolaris to have >1 distro based off it. It
gives choice to people. Look at the Linux distros. Each person uses his own
favourite distro and this helps popularise it.
Lastly I had wanted to do such a thing long back with Linux. But coming out
with yet another Linux distro did not seem to be a great idea. OpenSolaris is
however a different ball game.
>Moinak Ghosh <Moinak dot Ghosh at Sun dot COM> wrote:
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>> Some of the considerations for coming up with this LiveCD are listed at:
>> http://www.genunix.org/distributions/belenix_site/belenix_background.html
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>But your distri does not solve a single of the named problems.
Surprising!
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>SchilliX is much closer to your demands than belenix.
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>If recent Solaris versions (svc.stard & friends) were not buggy, then
>SchilliX-0.2 would have been published two months before (before
>I fif go on vacation) and SchilliX-0.2 fixes most of the problems.
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>- It comes with a clean and automated build procedure
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>- It comes with more sources
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>- SchilliX-0.1 allows you to compile X with few manual
> work. SchilliX-0.2 allows to do so out of the box.
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> belenix does not allow to compile a lot of free software
> because of missing features in libm and math.h and other
> important include files.
SchilliX is a great distro with lots of amazing work going into it. BeleniX
has just seen the light of the day and is still quite alpha stuff. But I did
compile most of the OSS packages included in BeleniX in BeleniX itself. And
now I have also been able to successfully compile and run Xorg CVS tree on
BeleniX - both using Sun Studio 10 and GCC 3.4 compilers.
Regards,
Moinak.
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>I do not really understand why another distri has been created instead
>of helping to make the current distribution better. Note that belenix
>still gives less features than SchilliX-0.1
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>J?rg
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Re: Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro
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Oct 7, 2005 1:38 PM
in response to: moinakg
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The first-ever Debian-based GNU/Solaris distribution is coming out soon!
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I've attached a screenshot taken few days ago off our T30 Thinkpad. This is
OpenSolaris build 22 kernel with the newest GNU userland on top.
This picture shows a few things... There is Evolution client, terminal (with
uname and a list of running processes), GNU/Solaris software update manager with
ready-to-use upgrades. There's also Firefox, Synaptic package manager, MySQL,
and Gaim Instant Messenger.
In addition, there are about 2,000 (yes, Two Thousand) more packages that did
not fit on screen ;) - but that nevertheless are available for immediate usage.
This new operating system runs today our www.gnusolaris.org two-way Opteron server
that we have used, and will continue using, for its own development.
The goal is to provide a complete open source distribution. The bar is set high
- considering the existing free Linux distributions, and the usability/quality
that people do expect by default.
It'll take us a 3-4 more weeks to get ready.
Our gnusolaris.org website is under construction; in 3-4 weeks we'll provide
not only downloads (ISO and all packages), but a fully functional *development
portal*, with package searching/browsing capabilities, with integrated source
control and bug reporting facilities. The goal is to immediately enable people
to (1) download, install, and run the distribution, and (2) contribute.
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Shanon Loveridge
sloveridge@gmail.com
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Re: Re: Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro
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Oct 9, 2005 8:06 PM
in response to: alexross
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That's excellent news Alex! You seem to have come a long way.
Which repositories are you using for synaptic? Do you have your own or are you going to integrate with Debian's?
Please send out a notice when you launch (You may want to consider posting to the gnu-opensolaris list as well).
Shanon On 10/8/05, Alex <alex at gnusolaris dot org> wrote:
The first-ever Debian-based GNU/Solaris distribution is coming out soon!
==============================================================
I've attached a screenshot taken few days ago off our T30 Thinkpad. This is
OpenSolaris build 22 kernel with the newest GNU userland on top.
This picture shows a few things... There is Evolution client, terminal (with
uname and a list of running processes), GNU/Solaris software update manager with
ready-to-use upgrades. There's also Firefox, Synaptic package manager, MySQL,
and Gaim Instant Messenger.
In addition, there are about 2,000 (yes, Two Thousand) more packages that did
not fit on screen ;) - but that nevertheless are available for immediate usage.
This new operating system runs today our www.gnusolaris.org two-way Opteron server
that we have used, and will continue using, for its own development.
The goal is to provide a complete open source distribution. The bar is set high
- considering the existing free Linux distributions, and the usability/quality
that people do expect by default.
It'll take us a 3-4 more weeks to get ready.
Our gnusolaris.org
website is under construction; in 3-4 weeks we'll provide
not only downloads (ISO and all packages), but a fully functional *development
portal*, with package searching/browsing capabilities, with integrated source
control and bug reporting facilities. The goal is to immediately enable people
to (1) download, install, and run the distribution, and (2) contribute.
This message posted from opensolaris.org
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Re: Re: Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro
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Oct 10, 2005 6:13 PM
in response to: Shanon Loveridge
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>> Which repositories are you using for synaptic?
>> Do you have your own or are you going to integrate with Debian's?
This is a separate repository/development/website. Like most of Debian "children-distros".
>> Please send out a notice when you launch
>> (You may want to consider posting to the gnu-opensolaris list as well).
Will do. Working on it.
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Re: Re: Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro
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Oct 11, 2005 2:53 AM
in response to: alexross
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Alex wrote:
>The first-ever Debian-based GNU/Solaris distribution is coming out soon!
>==============================================================
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>[snipped...]
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>This new operating system runs today our www.gnusolaris.org two-way Opteron server
>that we have used, and will continue using, for its own development.
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>The goal is to provide a complete open source distribution. The bar is set high
>- considering the existing free Linux distributions, and the usability/quality
>that people do expect by default.
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This is really cool. However I am unable to access www.gnusolaris.org
. Is it up yet ?
Which installer are you using ?
Regards,
Moinak.
>It'll take us a 3-4 more weeks to get ready.
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>Our gnusolaris.org website is under construction; in 3-4 weeks we'll provide
>not only downloads (ISO and all packages), but a fully functional *development
>portal*, with package searching/browsing capabilities, with integrated source
>control and bug reporting facilities. The goal is to immediately enable people
>to (1) download, install, and run the distribution, and (2) contribute.
>This message posted from opensolaris.org
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Re: Re: Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro
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Oct 11, 2005 2:33 PM
in response to: moinakg
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Moinak wrote:
>> This is really cool. However I am unable to access www.gnusolaris.org
>>.Is it up yet ?
It's under construction. Can download, search over 2000 packages by: package name, file name, substring. Can view file lists, changelog. Today added discussion forums. Still need to integrate with bug tracking, etc.Should be done with that and a few outstanding issues by early November.
>> Which installer are you using ?
Just a custom minimal script, The installer's going to be a separate project.
Also:
Added a few office applications: abiword, dia, stardict, gnumeric, mergeant (MySQL frontend). Here's a screenshot (see attached).
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Re: Re: Re: Announcing an OpenSolaris LiveCD distro
Posted:
Nov 1, 2005 3:07 PM
in response to: alexross
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It looks like the site is up but it's currently password protected. Is there a process for getting an account or is this something which will go away once the site development is further along?
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