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Saturday August 19, 2006

Singanix A group of us have made a baby step to develop Singanix.

Below was a summary of the email that kinda summarised our first meeting 1+ month ago...

It's called Singanix as the idea was born in Singapore Solaris User Group. But it's of course open to all. After all, it's one global village indeed.

So do drop by at www.singanix.org. Most importantly, join us at http://www.singanix.org/bb/profile.php?mode=register

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Singanix is a lean but cool OS. It differs to Solaris or OpenSolaris in the following manner:
1. It has 1 CD, not 5.
2. It's for end users, not servers. It targets Sun Ray, notebooks, desktops. It has drivers, utilities, etc for end users.
3. It still has items that makes Solaris cool: zones, zfs, dtrace, smf...
4. It's based on lightweight UI (e.g. xfce), not gnome. My apology if I hurt some gnome/jds folks (my personal preference is enlightenment).
5. It's cool looking. People would ask "what OS is this?"
6. Instead of building on top of the kernel, we would dive inside and make it slim. This differentiates it from other OpenSolaris distros.
7. It has up to date softwares. For example, Firefox 1.5 instead of Mozilla 1.7

Objectives:
1. learn.
2. have fun.
3. make friends with like-minded people.
4. achieve something we all can be proud of.

Explaination on the objectives:
+ we would learn by diving into the kernel. Since the kernel is the OS, let's get to the bottom of it.
+ we would have fun making our OS cool, lean and sexy. I wanna have Miss World 2006 theme please...
+ a common project would encourage greater interaction, instead of 1-way interaction we've had so far... Each of us is interested in OpenSolaris, so might as well make friends and do something together. Folks, we are all adult here, so in this community, it's everyone's responsibility to think how to take our community to the next level.


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