[OpenIndiana-discuss] oi or hipster for ultra5?

[Jacob Ritorto]

Well, you were right; however, after spending the day with the bsds, I have
to conclude:  They're nice; they're snappy, but they're no OpenSolaris / OI
/ Hipster in terms of overall usability, features and stability.  We really
do have an awesome thing going over here.  Just need it to be smaller ;)

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 2:59 PM, David Brodbeck <brodbd at uw.edu> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >   Going to recompile the bins on bsd.
> >   Absolutely LOVING the keyboard.  Gosh, I missed that thing.
> >
> > Otherwise, yeah, don't need a pc here.  I admit that I'm a little nervy
> > about the bsd learning curve, but, hey - it's a nice thing to pick up
> along
> > the way.
> >
>
> I suspect you'll pick it up pretty easily if you have any past experience
> with SunOS 4, which was based on 4.3 BSD.  Non-SYSV init scripts may trip
> you up a little, although FreeBSD has been moving to an "almost SYSV" sort
> of setup with /etc/rc.d and /usr/local/etc/rc.d directories; dunno if
> OpenBSD has followed suit.  In general the *BSD distributions tend to be
> very well documented, both online and inside the OS.
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