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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Community distro
From:       Ken Mays <maybird1776 () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2010-07-25 9:44:32
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To: Hernán Saltiel & Community User Groups

The community needs resources to maintain the components updated by the various \
teams. For the upcoming Hackathon and user meetings, users interested in building a \
'community distro' or providing support for it should know where to look for help.

The offloads can be through the current major distro providers: SchilliX, Belenix, \
Nexenta, Milax, EON, Korona, and Jaris. Users can use those distros to provide \
current solutions or provide feedback/bug reporting on what they would like to see \
improved. Also, users can work with those distros in doing the work.

IPS repositories are needed in geographic locations to support their local user \
groups. The /dev repository has about 1730 packages that can be compressed to a DVDs \
for global distribution or can use the older OSOL 2009.06 distro for initial setup. \
The goal here is to support the pkg(5) team in using IPS as a package management \
solution and provided 'basic' docs on how to use it and keep it updated.

I'll mention Package Factory and SourceJuicer. These were concepts to provide users \
with a way to have packages compiled through an "automated" build engine (SJ) through \
a front-end web interface (PF/SJ). You could provide an URL to your FOSS packages \
with some basic package definition and purpose through Package Factory, then Package \
Factory would send this information off to automate a build. The community could pick \
up on this concept to provide a system of this nature.

Users can ensure the Wikipedia info located here is accurate and up-to-date: \
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris

The 'community' people that could be contacted for expertise in OpenSolaris distro \
creation and repository support:

Ref: https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=122454&tstart=0

Getting ON sources through web access (Genunix/Mercurial)? see Cyril Plisko

Jaris, led by Kotaro-san, a Japanese-centric desktop distro.

SchilliX, led by Joerg Shilling, a server-centric development distro.

Belenix, led by Moinak Ghosh, a general-purpose desktop and graphics distro.

Jeos, led by Rudolf Kutina, on VM builds

LiveUSB creation, led by Hiroshi Chonan, on LiveUSB builds

Korona, led by Pavel Heimlich, a KDE-centric distro.

EON, led by Andre Lue, NAS/ZFS storage solution 

marTux, led by Martin Bochnig, first community distribution for SPARC workstations

MilaX, led by Alexander Eremin, mini recovery CD/USB distro

Nexenta/NexentaStor, led by Anil Gulecha and Garrett d' Amore, on \
OpenSolaris/Ubuntu-based (Debian) community distro and advanced storage solutions.

StormOS, led by Andrew Stormont, a lightweight desktop OS based on Nexenta and Xfce.

OSUNIX project, led by C. Bergstrom (codestr0m) and Max Bruning, distro and expertise \
in the best of OpenSolaris technologies

Device drivers, led by people like Jürgen Keil and Masayuki Murayama, on their \
expertise on various device drivers.

Blastwave/OpenCSW for advanced Solaris-based package management and FOSS porting \
support.

So you have a lot of community people that can help as well as many user groups.

~ Ken Mays
Atlanta, Georgia (USA)
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