On 11/ 7/17 12:26 PM, openbabel wrote:
Greetings All,
I would like to add that if you have a particular interest in helping
the desktop environment advance we would welcome your imput.
Robert Jones
Just to add..
...and would also welcome posting answer to messages, below quotes :)
On 07/11/2017 07:53, Nikola M wrote:
On 11/ 7/17 01:34 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
Greetings All,
I have used many operating systems over the years and lately have been
using Windows (all flavors) as well as Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo,
etc...) bu mostly have been using Ubuntu 16.04 as my desktop for
some time
now.
Currently, I am gearing up to do a couple of projects which have the
Illumos base which are in the SmartOS arena, but it made me start to
wonder
if I should also consider loading up OpenIndiana Hipster as my
desktop so
that I can become more familiar with it as it seems to have many
similarities as SmartOS and wanted to get the opinion of the OI
community
as to what they thought about it as a day-to-day OS?
Mostly just exploring the possibility of nuking Ubuntu in favor of
installing OI for a while to see how it runs.
Any comments, experiences, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Firstly , Openindiana is the distribution name because /hipster
(lowercase) is not OS/distribution name, but a repository name.
I welcome you to illumos distributions, Unix-derived family. (It is
truly derived from Unix and not just Unix-like)
Openindiana is a server-oriented UK-hosted OS that have a desktop. OI
has 'snapshots' twice a year (not a releases per se, since they are
not supported to be updated as such like in Ubuntu) and in the
meantime there are contiuous updates of fresh and 'vanilla' illumos
updates and the effort of contributors in 'userland' source
repository to make it better, more bug free and add fundamental
features, where Alexander Pyhalov is standing out together with all
other important contributors.
Having a MATE desktop, Firefox ESR and LibreOffice (from SFE
repository), Openindiana is enough for everyday use of internet
services and using Solaris zones (those might end up hosted in the
illumos based cloud), but it is sure that some device driver support
might lacking or trailing behind a bit.
You can also bootstrap Joyent SmartOS userland and use it in the
window, using pkgsrc packages, separately installed, in the terminal
emulator and have it together with OI desktop experience. There are
also Boot Envornments on top of ZFS that makes both testing and
production use more reliable and predictive experience etc.
So you can count on frequent and inclusive experience, that would
demand of you to be more included in the development of the OI
itself, not only by posting bug reports or driver support requests,
but it could also allow you to be more directly involved (and more
appreciated) then in some other distributions you could. So it's both
exciting and fulfilling experience to use it and make it better.
Don' take anything by the letter , be free to openly (and publicly!)
collaborate with others and everything you do will be important.
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