[OpenIndiana-discuss] Proposal: OpenIndiana Stable Branch

[Ivan Wang]

Then I am also one of the minority here..

I do use solaris/opensolaris/openindiana as desktop and plan to
continue doing so until all is lost.
This goes back to my school day sitting in front of ultra1 in the lab.
Old habit dies hard.

Please continue openindiana's desktop viability as long as possible.

Thank you.
Ivan.



> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 10:37:09 +0000
> From: hairryharry <hairryharry at tesco.net>
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> A plea and advice.
>
> I suspect I am in the minority who has found solaris then OSOL and now
> OI and now uses it as a desktop system and small server - CIFS for kids
> home work. But coming from linux use over last 12 years have found it
> rather good -feels stable, limited packages but what you generally need
> and some ZFS features -time slider/snapshots, easy back ups and easy cifs.
>
> My plea is please not to ignore the desktop/home user, yes we are in the
> minority (correct me if I am in the wrong) but if we want to use a
> "solaris" based unix there currently seems no where else to go.
>
> I do like the idea of a stable branch and the idea of security update so
> at least the core system is up to date but please ensure we can still
> access a reasonably stable desktop.
>
> The advice please is if the overall plan is to move completely to a
> server based distro and use as a desktop OS is limited should I just
> stop wasting my time and step off now and return to linux.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike
>
>