[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI roadmap (for production)

[Gary Gendel]

On 12/04/2015 11:06 AM, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote:
> Alexander, and Predrag,
>
> Thank you for the information. Currently I am using OI 151a9 for a 
> web/ftp/mail server exposed to Internet. I am satisfied with the 
> stability but concerned that this branch is not supported. I will 
> consider hipster next time when I need to setup a server (it may be an 
> intranet database server or something like a backend for an online 
> service). I think that hipster is stable enough and hope that some 
> future update will not beak everything :)
>
> Best regards,
> Dmitry.
>
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I moved to OmniOS because I was unable to upgrade hipster at one point 
as it broke the bge driver (in a very frustrating way as it looked like 
all packets were being filtered).  I tried several times as new releases 
were available without success.  Eventually decided to go to OmniOS as 
it met my needs and had stable and LTS versions. I still think that 
OpenIndiana via hipster is really good and would use it for a desktop or 
laptop when applicable, but having an X-server wasn't a necessity for my 
server setup.  OmniOS has a minimal footprint and can use pkgsrc 
(supported by Joyent) to bring in lots of supported and latest packages 
you may need.

Gary