[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

[Hans J. Albertsson]

I'm looking at Hipster 2016.04 and noticing that it supposedly includes 
gnome and mate1.4, apart from firefox and ffmpeg and lots of nice things.

No warnings on the Release Notes page.

Then I find another download, 2016 08 16, a test iso where the 
intro/invite text talks about serious problems with having both MATE and 
Gnome....

And I have a few other minor unclear points when trying to understand 
the ISO snapshot vs ips server stuff.


So a few questions to clear my mind of unfounded worries:

I suppose the ISOs are "hipster in a reasonably stable state, well worth 
trying in a non-critical machine, likely to work just fine, mostly"?

Are the live graphical ISOs reasonably complete, including most standard 
toppings for the Hipster ice cream? Or should I expect to add further 
packages after the ISO is installed, in order to have a nice basic 
desktop or media server experience??

Is the Gnome vs Mate issue from the 2016-08-16 test ISO a problem in the 
2016.04 ISO as well???

In the future, how do I upgrade from my then current Hipster ISO distro 
to the next Hipster ISO distro?
Will the ISOs contain an upgrade option?? Or is there some consolidation 
package magic to use the IPS server for that??

I intend to run Hipster in a new machine, no old data to backup.