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Hardly the grandest of tasks

People happily give away their life history on facebook yet not a username and password to sun for a free os..

Yet that has nothing to do with this guys beef does it? If he's not on facebook your point doesn't apply.

Yeah, it does blow. But if you follow the Project Indiana link, you can get a developer preview without registration. Its also got a better integrated Gnome desktop which IMO makes all the difference for a test system.

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Edited 2007-12-04 14:58

Eh, the site you linked to gives me a proxy error.

www.mailinator.com is a good site for throwaway email addresses. No registration or anything required.

There is a reason for that; SXCE still has third party code in there which needs you to accept a licence before you can download the code.

This issue has been explained many times - its getting to the point of as being as stupid as those who go on about SkyOS and whether it should be opensourced.

No Mr
I am a system administrator and I know that I have to use cat file1 file2 file3 > final_file.iso from console session

"I am a system administrator and I know that I have to use cat file1 file2 file3 > final_file.iso from console session"

That's simplest UNIX basics, as well as reading documentation, which he should not be afraid of or too lazy for. By the way, how would a "Windows" user do something similar to the "cat trick"? :-)

use xcopy command

or more precisely

copy /b file1 + file2 + file3 + file4 + file5 file.iso

Edited 2007-12-04 23:33

Thanks for this completition, I just had to obey to an inner affect of humor, so my previous post was to be read for entertainment purposes only. :-)

I still know this command from times when I had to transfer files between a DOS and a UNIX machine where the file size exceeded the floppy disk capacity, so I used split and cat on the UNIX side, and on DOS, as you mentioned, copy /b and ... hmmm, I think DOS didn't have a split command, so I wrote one on my own... ah yes, and TAR.EXE. :-)

Now you just would have to tell a "Windows" user how to access the command line and how to use it. :-)

This is the hottest topics on the discussion lists (you can check them through jive: http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/)

I've read them, but still confused as to what is really going to happen.

So my conclusions were:
1- I need to learn how to really read.
2- Others need to learn how to write
3- On time communication is a must, and that wasn't the case with this topic (if this isn't the case '1' should be root cause of all confusions :-P)

As I understand it, Project Indiana is set to become "the" OpenSolaris distro, along the lines of OpenSUSE and Fedora, I guess. SXCE/SXDE will only be for those people who need the extra Sun stuff (whereby as far as I can tell the only things you can't download and install on Indiana yourself are CDE and StarOffice, correct me if I'm wrong). So who knows? Maybe the Community Edition will pretty much disappear while the Developer Edition lives on? They'll probably just gauge demand and take any decision-making from there.

P.S. I know that Indiana is more comfortable to the majority of Gnome users, but am I the only one that actually *likes* the layout/feel of Java Desktop System?