[OpenIndiana-discuss] 1rst mirror in Europe: Illumos based MartUX_OpenIndiana_Edition for SPARC LiveDVD (without installer)

[Martin Bochnig]

> 2 hours left till download is finished!



Which download speeds do you folks get?
Here in Berlin I get 1.2MBytes/sec.
Ken from the US east coast reported:  209kb/s avg once it got busy,
but I saw 650kb/s


However, meanwhile we have the first mirror.

Andrej Javoršek from Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology,
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia just contacted me, offered help and
within a short time HELPED.
Big thanks to him!

The alternate link is:
http://dl-martux.ntf.uni-lj.si/MartUX-OpenIndiana_Edition-151a0-LiveDVD__sun4u_sun4v.iso


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2nd topic: JDS takes too long to boot off DVD, on SPARC:
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Okay, certainly most of you will be disappointed if they see, how long
it takes to boot into Gnome.
Well, I agree with you. Gnome has always had a big footprint, and not
necessarily good performance.
Best example: IO speed of gnome-terminal (untar a big file with
verbose option on a slow system and compare performance of
gnome-terminal versus xterm Ok, xterm is less convenient, because it
doesn't offer tabs and has not menu bar. But do you know rxvt? No
menu, but does have tabs that can be named).

For live-media it is undoubtedly no question, that Gnome is a bad choice.
But my point: Not only for live-media.
I would be interested in your opinion.


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3rd topic: IPS is a pain to maintain!!!
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Many of you know IPS only from a user's point of view.
(and that's slow enough ...)
But did you ever spend weeks or months on bootstrapping a Repo?
Pkgdepend runs for days and burns the cpu.
But even that only if you have reached a remote point, where it runs
at all without quitting after the first manifest, due to unresolved
dependencies.
Building such a repo is a _huge_ effort.
But for what?
Who would still be happy with (an extended_ SVR4 pkgadd, that can also
be installed over the network with automatic deps resolution, as
Blastwave has proven already starting 10 years ago)?
Not only has Moinak Ghosh described SVR4 based alternatives on his
blog 3 years ago, but as far as I know Joerg Schilling has also really
developed a solution for SchilliX, just this year.


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4th: OI leaders contradict themselves when it comes to SPARC
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On their beautiful website it reads, openness, openness and
involvement is welcome (or the like).
And that help with SPARC would be appreciated.

Am I the only one who notices, that they never officially, nor
inofficially responded?
Not at all  ... !?
Nothing came from them. Not even a location where we could upload this stuff.