Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Tue 15th Jul 2008 19:48 UTC, submitted by Michael Larabel
While OpenSolaris 2008.05 is only two months old, work at Sun is already underway in preparing for the second OpenSolaris release, which will be known as OpenSolaris 2008.11 and has been codenamed Jericho.
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It's left out due to space constraints. There simply isn't enough room to include the basic software and all the language support needed on a single cd.
Before you ask "why not a dvd?": for right now, the target audience is a user of a single cd.
Well the current iso of opensolaris-93 is delivered as a dvd image already because it exceeded the cd size. You can get the same release minus some goodies in a cd size iso image. So the target audience must not make that much of a difference. In fact I haven't read any open marketing material that claimed the size of the image is going to make and difference at all for opensolaris. That is by force one size fits all.
---Bob
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The target audience for OpenSolaris 2008.05 is very different from the SXCE audience.
If you read the advocacy, indiana and other mailing lists you will find many posts about the fact that a good portion of users do not have DVD drives for the users we are targeting. Especially in developing countries.
Limiting the size of the install media also helps focus the core of the system.
Ubuntu limits themselves to a single CD too, but they have less multi-lingual support and only deliver a single architecture (32-bit or 64-bit, not both) on a single CD. [/q]
I said nothing about "SXCE". I know Nevada is a DVD image size. I said "OpenSolaris" aka Indiana is now over the size of of a cd image and it's being distributed that way. So it is not the matter of limiting the size of Indiana's image. Unless there is some data that shows some magical image size number that telcos have limits to support this.
This is all kind of silly marketing. Having a full DVD image of material isn't going to harm Indiana. Damn I have to say "Indiana". Nor does it take a thousand monkeys to produce the image. It doesn't even take a lot of Sun resources to distribute this via torrent.
What ever the limitations are so be it.
---Bob
This is all about a very silly arbitrary limit that is suppose to grow