[oi-dev] [discuss] Thank you for the new Donations to OpenIndiana

[Atiq Rahman]

> Dell Latitude 6510

Is that a notebook released in July 2010 ?

> the rule is the older the better
I was expecting a response like this from someone here.

Generally, isn't it a bad idea to suggest using older hardware instead
of improving the software? This kind of thinking is typical of large,
bureaucratic evil corp (you know who I mean) and often harms users.
I'm surprised to see it's crept into the OI/Illumos community.


Best!

Atiq


On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM Stephan Althaus via illumos-discuss <
discuss at lists.illumos.org> wrote:

> On 10/7/25 07:51, Atiq Rahman wrote:
>
> I donated to find out neither of my graphics cards are supported on
> OpenIndiana.
>
> Eventually, I let go of graphics and thought about just using it without
> graphics to find out neither of wireless lan and NIC are supported. The
> NIC/lan one is so common among notebooks yet illumos doesn't have it!
>
> Often depressed seeing the state of illumos.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2025, 10:32 PM wojak-studio.com via illumos-discuss <
> discuss at lists.illumos.org> wrote:
>
>> Please bring hardware accelerated graphics back before I would even
>> consider a donation. I'm using Intel Integrated graphics. Old enough
>> hardware so even NetBSD does have support for hardware accelerated
>> graphics. But you borked libdrm and forcing me to use VESA.
>>
> Hello!
>
> The illumos world is a more server-side reality, usually they don't need
> graphic cards.
>
> With graphics and Openindiana we have to use NVIDIA GPUs. There are only a
> few people who would be able to make recent INTEL GPU to work, but other
> topics have higher priority, as always when there is much more to do than
> working hands  available...
>
> With Laptops, the rule is the older the better, my Dell Latitude 6510 with
> NVidia build in works fine with LAN.
>
> As my home server i use a €100 older server with XEON E3-1231 v3 @ 3.40GHz
> and 32GB RAM, when i need graphics there are cheap Nvidia NVS 295 cards or
> GT1030 or whatever...
>
> We have to use (and love:) whats already there. (.. unless you are able to
> sponsor a developer to work on your needs - or do it yourself)
>
>
> Thats my point of view.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Stephan
>
>
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