Ok, clear. Hans J. Albertsson >From my Nexus 5
Den 27 sep. 2016 18:00 skrev "ken mays via openindiana-discuss" < [email protected]>: > Hello, > No. The official snapshot is the 2016.04 (i.e. BETA) release. The 2016.08 > snapshot is an ALPHA (experimental) release - not an official snapshot. > Read carefully, there are no STABLE releases of OI-Hipster. These are all > 'developer snapshots' - and only tested within a limited scope. > oi_151a track was maintained in a somewhat STABLE manner (slow moving > track). > ~K > > > On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:03 AM, Hans J. Albertsson < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm looking at Hipster 2016.04 and noticing that it supposedly includes > gnome and mate1.4, apart from firefox and ffmpeg and lots of nice things. > > No warnings on the Release Notes page. > > Then I find another download, 2016 08 16, a test iso where the > intro/invite text talks about serious problems with having both MATE and > Gnome.... > > And I have a few other minor unclear points when trying to understand > the ISO snapshot vs ips server stuff. > > > So a few questions to clear my mind of unfounded worries: > > I suppose the ISOs are "hipster in a reasonably stable state, well worth > trying in a non-critical machine, likely to work just fine, mostly"? > > Are the live graphical ISOs reasonably complete, including most standard > toppings for the Hipster ice cream? Or should I expect to add further > packages after the ISO is installed, in order to have a nice basic > desktop or media server experience?? > > Is the Gnome vs Mate issue from the 2016-08-16 test ISO a problem in the > 2016.04 ISO as well??? > > In the future, how do I upgrade from my then current Hipster ISO distro > to the next Hipster ISO distro? > Will the ISOs contain an upgrade option?? Or is there some consolidation > package magic to use the IPS server for that?? > > I intend to run Hipster in a new machine, no old data to backup. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
