opensolaris.com mockup
April 16, 2008 1:37 pm Indiana, OpenSolaris, Sun, WebAs opensolaris.com starts to focus more on the ‘download, install and run’ experience, catering towards the consumer rather than the producer, a few people in Sun have been working on a design separate to that of the current opensolaris.org, here – though much of the content is still being worked out.
opensolaris.org will continue to be the live hub for most of the day-to-day activity we currently see across the projects and community groups – nothing changes there, though hopefully the benefit is that it will relieve some of the burden from opensolaris.org on trying to cater for 2 pretty distinct audiences than it was originally intended for.
Of course I can’t take any credit in this, but personally I think the design is pretty fabulous! Have a play with the mockup, tell me what you think!
April 16th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Very nice! I like the simplicity (ala Mozilla.com), it looks as if (going by the links that we will be pointing downloads back to OpenSolaris.org…hopefully the marketing/design folk will choose not to do that as the inconsistant interface could be a bit of a turn off. Perhaps the only link back to osol.org should be the share portion…Thats my two cents
April 16th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
It would be nice if one could, for instance, go to the “commercial” branch (opensolaris.com) of OpenSolaris, and order DVDs for some minimal sum of money, kind of like what Ubuntu (or whoever) has for delivering free CDs/DVDs to anywhere in the world.
Maybe this could be even turned into a profit, say a $1 profit per DVD?
April 16th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Very nice site, hopefulluy the forums get redesigned.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
The design mockup is pretty cool, especially the simplicity and layout. I still don’t know what to think of the bubble-logo (in the upper left corner), though.
April 16th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
UX-admin: We’ll have free CD shipping. There’s 40,000 CDs that will be ready and waiting for those who want a CD shipped to them. Obviously the download is going to be quicker than waiting 4-6 weeks for a CD, but the option is definitely there (along with mirroring/bittorrenting).
April 17th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Nice design , simply and beatifull .
April 21st, 2008 at 5:51 am
Looks great!
Bonus comment -here’s another market niche for opensolaris to fill (besides the the home media storage appliance idea I posted previously :-D):
http://www.apple.com/finalcutserver/ <— use opensolaris, ZFS, and NMM (http://www.networkmultimedia.org/) to build kickass webbased asset management and storage applications). That and the right investments in Blender.org, LiVES, kino, FilmGimp etc should allow you to take away ~10-15% of Final Cut Pro market — using longish term “adoption led” viral approach and all that 🙂
April 24th, 2008 at 1:48 am
when is this concept going online?