[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana on a Samsung NC10 Netbook - Issues

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Didn't realise ZFS was that hungry. I guess I don't notice at work as our
servers have minimum 32GB RAM.

I'll give XStream OS a go but I still would like to give OpenIndiana a try.
Shame there's no text-based install to get things off the ground. Was there
one originally that was deprecated?


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Discussion list for OpenIndiana <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

> It's the ZFS and "pkg system" that will make it seem awful.
>
> both of them eat memory, ZFS silently in the background ... and as soon as
> it starts swapping (at least on my spinning rust) it becomes unusable ... I
> upgraded to 4GB, I could work in 2GB, but as soon as I needed more
> (SQLDeveloper and DBVisualiser at the same time) it just turned ugly.
>
> LXDE possibly is still the best answer for you, but I can't see the
> packages anywhere ...
>
> Have you thought of trying XtreamOS from Sonicle? they have a lot of this
> work done, and have LibreOffice working as well.
>
> Jon
>
>
>
> On 9 May 2014 11:29, Discussion list for OpenIndiana <
> openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
>
> > I was going to upgrade it to 2GB (maximum for these) but I don't have a
> > need for it at the moment. Debian + Gnome runs on it fine without issue.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Discussion list for OpenIndiana <
> > openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Ignore that, it doesn't look like the whole of lxde is there ...
> > >
> > >
> > > On 9 May 2014 11:17, Discussion list for OpenIndiana <
> > > openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > lxde is in the SFE repository, you might want to look at using that
> > since
> > > > it's a much lighter interface (not that I have used it in a long
> time,
> > or
> > > > checked that it works recently)
> > > >
> > > > 1GB of memory isn't much to play with ...
> > > >
> > > > Jon
> > > >
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