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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 16.08.25 um 11:21 schrieb Atiq
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<div>Hello Stephan,</div>
<div>> now i just swap the boot discs. Its far easier....
additional boot disc (128-512 gb?)</div>
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I am not Stephan but will nevertheless try to explain my setup.<br>
I see OpenIndiana as a workstation platform that can also be used as
a server platform.<br>
(OmniOS is in my eyes the exact opposite: it's a server platform
that can also be used as a workstation one.)<br>
Of course many things are still missing in OI due to lack of
resources,<br>
some of them most probably will never appear on it because they are
either far too complex (eg. signal, visual studio code) or closed
source (eg. whatsapp).<br>
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I use OI as my secondary operating system while macos is my first.
This is due to the fact that I want or need to use some software
that is not available on OI (eg. sophisticated photo editing, tax
declaration, video conferecing, ...). Of course I use OI on my own
home server, too.<br>
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I have started to use mixed OS installations on single disks in the
far past and stopped that when disks became affordable. The
following time I have been using the multiple disk approach that
Stephan mentioned. Partly I am still using that but I also have some
old workstations (eg. Fujitsu W530) which are really cheap nowadays.<br>
This is my preferred approach today because I can install any OS I
want to experiment with on them without hesitation.<br>
Usually all of them run OI, though. That's because I need test
platforms for fundamental changes which have many implications on
other packages. But I only need this because I am one of the OI
maintainers.<br>
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I already tried to explain in a previous reply why OI is my
secondary OS. Everything else I tried (and I tried a lot) has
drawbacks that make me prefer OI over them. One important reason is
that as a maintainer I can change/influence what and how OI provides
software easily. It is quite easy to become an OI maintainer (I know
this for sure as I am in a position to add maintainers); I think
it's almost as easy as becoming a maintainer of your own operating
system.<br>
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Furthermore, OI as a successor of OpenSolaris, has some mostly
hidden features that can only be found by intensive use of OI. The
typical distro hopper who always seeks for a better environment
spending his/her time installing/collecting operating systems (or
simply Linux distributions) won't be able to find because a couple
of minutes is not enough to find and understand them.<br>
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Andreas<br>
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<div>> FreeBSD has switched around the terms “slice”
and “partition”. They are using “slice" for fdisk/mbr
case and “partition” for everything else.</div>
<div>Thank you for sharing the fun fact!</div>
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<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>Just to share my humble opinion..</p>
<p>Partitioning is a point where i had my 'problems', too.
These slices never really burnt in my mind, ('slice 2 is
whole disc' - why no. 2??) </p>
<p>Especially for new users without solarish bachground a
tool that is 'like fdisk' would be handy - i really
don't like format and fdisk cause i don't really know
what they do :-/</p>
<p>On OI we have "parted", "gdisk" and "cgdisk" which are
sort of this, for 'modern' GPT disc labels. <br>
That's really great. With UEFI working now flawlessly i
don't need anything else anymore.</p>
<p>For me, i now use UFEI boot using whoe disc, in one
case i did pre-partinioning to create a pool that is
smaller than whole disc for later mirroing..,<br>
and zfs pools with 'whole disc' devices.</p>
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<p>~10 years ago i battled with dual boot setups, now i
just swap the boot discs. Its far easier. <br>
These some € more for additional boot disc (128-512 gb?)
really free spare time to create something more
productive.</p>
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<p>Just my 2 cents,</p>
<p>Stephan</p>
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