[OpenIndiana-discuss] No longer using OI Desktop

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 8 Jun 2015, David Brodbeck wrote:
>
> Kernel drivers are a pretty esoteric area in any OS, and doubly so in OI.
> I don't think there have been very many community changes to the drivers
> handed down from Oracle.

This is a false statement.

There are many community changes to the drivers in Illumos, and ast 
least the "hipster" variant of OI regularly picks up Illumos kernel 
improvements, including the drivers.

Regardless, there are glaring problems such as lack of USB 3 support.

Bob
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