<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I don't know where you get that SmartOS is for light loads and OI is for heavy loads, but on OI I can run DB2 while I can't on SmartOS because of a SUNW error.<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> OpenIndiana Developer mailing list <oi-dev@openindiana.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 30, 2013 8:33 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [oi-dev] hipster<br> </font>
</div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>On Thu, 30 May 2013, G B wrote:<br><br>> I apologize for not following the 'hipster' thread more closely, but is 'hipster' intended to be 151a8,<br>> meaning that doing a standard `pkg image-update` from the default publisher will never get bumped to 151a8 or<br>> future releases?<br>> <br>> I did try once to update with hipster and has error/warnings galore scroll past and then failed to update. <br>> Is that going to be fixed? I applaud the efforts of those working on it, but with OI already on life<br>> support, hurdles in the road like this will only frustrate users more and cause them to abandon it<br>> altogether. <br><br>Maybe you should follow that thread more closely. After initial<br>reports of failures now there are many reports of complete success. <br>It is an on-going process.<br><br>Otherwise, I am also curious to see if 'hipster' becomes the next
<br>formal 151a8 and perhaps leading to an official OI release.<br><br>> At first I thought there was hope with hipster, but then had those errors and have mostly decided at this<br>> point to use SmartOS for my web/mail servers. Although last night when I logged into 151a7 and did a little<br>> work I had a thought that perhaps I should just stay on OI because I like it, but then logged onto my SmartOS<br>> machine and wondered why should I keep using or wanting ot use OI?<br><br>If all you need is web and mail, then almost any distribution will do.<br><br>SmartOS and OI target completely different usage models (light/heavy), <br>although OI can support most functionalities offered by SmartOS.<br><br>Bob<br>-- <br>Bob Friesenhahn<br><a ymailto="mailto:bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us" href="mailto:bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us">bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us</a>, <a href="http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/"
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