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<p><tt><font size="2">Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote on 08/31/2012 10:43:14 AM:<br>
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, garrett.damore@dey-sys.com wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > So then, I have just a single question: What is the compelling <br>
> > reason for doing all this effort? Why not just load up Ubuntu on <br>
> > your desktop (or buy a Mac, or even run *cough* Windows) and run <br>
> > illumos bits in a VM?<br>
> <br>
> This position you advocate is a very low-performing one and not very <br>
> reliable either. It is much better to run the inferior OSs in a VM.<br>
> <br>
> The so-called "desktop" is a way to interact with the OS using a <br>
> graphical interface. It is not necessary for it to directly support <br>
> idle social applications like "Skype".<br>
> <br>
> On hardware I have here, I find OpenIndiana's "desktop" to be quite <br>
> performant. I also find Solaris 10's aging "desktop" to be quite <br>
> performant. I find the "desktop" to be less performant on Linux <br>
> systems like Ubtuntu because the focus there seem to be to consume all <br>
> available resources with new effects and exotic graphics which do not <br>
> contribute to getting things done. It has not taken me long to learn <br>
> that Ubtuntu is so frightfully complicated that its developers do not <br>
> quite understand how it works, and they have not even resolved the <br>
> long-standing randomly-occuring bug that the system ignores requests <br>
> to shut down and reboots fail to properly initialize the audio device. <br>
> I have also had Apple hardware and OS here but it suffers from issues <br>
> particular to Apple's social culture (which bears some resemblance to <br>
> Oracle) and it is difficult to recommend that someone depend on it for <br>
> long term use.<br>
> <br>
> Current OpenIndiana is satisfactory for most things that I need and it <br>
> only lacks ready-made packages for Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, <br>
> and the available Flash plugin. If detractors do not get in the way, <br>
> forward progress will resume, and these packages will surely appear.</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font size="2">These 3 things need to be done, but there are no bug/feature-request for them I could find. I'll add them, If there are no missing dependencies, I'll even go ahead and take the FF one.</font></tt><br>
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> <br>
> Bob<br>
> -- <br>
> Bob Friesenhahn<br>
> bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, <a href="http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/">http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/</a><br>
> GraphicsMagick Maintainer, <a href="http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/">http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/</a><br>
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