<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Presently I'm using SmartOS to serve my domains and use OpenBSD on KVM on SmartOS as my mail server. <br><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Last weekend I installed OI 151a8 since I used it prior to moving to SmartOS and wanted to see what changes had been made, etc, to OI.<br><br>OI has always been very stable, but I've never understood the hipster development. OI always had a development/experimental repo and hipster seems to break things. Why isn't the effort with hipster being put into 151a8 and future releases?<br><br>I've noticed a wiki comment by Gary Mills on March 16, 2014, "The git commit for illumos is
dated Fri Sep 6 09:20:56 2013. That's several months before this version of OI was released. Is there a problem tracking illumos versions, or did it really take that long?" <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">That is fundamentally flawed. What is the point of a 151a9 and other releases if the commit is months older than the current illumos-gate?</div></div></body></html>