[OpenIndiana-discuss] replacing an open solaris box

[Jim Klimov]

On 2013-05-25 15:43, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
>> From: Nikola M. [mailto:minikola at gmail.com]
>>
>> On 05/24/13 02:46 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (openindiana) wrote:
>>>> From: Kristoff Bonne [mailto:kristoff at skypro.be]
>>>> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:27 AM
>>>>
>>>> What Operating System would you now advice for a personal workstation
>>>> for "simple" work (telnet/ssh to other devices, perl, firefox,
>>>> thunderbird, ...). Also important is the ability to run VirtualBox.
>>> For personal workstation, openindiana desktop.
>> And it is called illumos ;)
>
> Ummm...  Illumos is the open source fork of the core of the opensolaris
 > operating system.  But illumos itself is not an installable or usable
> OS.


I think Nikola's comment regarded "illuminos" in the original post.
There are many ways that the "illumos" word is mangled by newcomers
to this area, as well as its usage ("kernel+" vs. distro) ;)

Not that this has a high priority, but may be an area for improvement
in populace education (whatever it's called - marketing?)

//Jim