[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Hans J. Albertsson
<hans.j.albertsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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"?

The "unstable" definition of Hipster means that you can expect version
bumps with occasional breakage: it does not mean that your system will
collapse. This is a rather common misunderstanding of "stable".

The base system being what you can expect from illumos, it is "stable"
as in "not falling" apart.

Some bugs may occasionally appear for Desktop components but I have
the same and even more on my Debian stable (e.g minus the ones I fixed
i oi-userland).

The bottom line is: I have been running Hipster for my researchin the
past 4 years. Now running MATE + Xorg 1.18.4 on 3 workstations (Intel
and Nvidia graphics).

Another thing: Hipster is what people make of it, so the more love it
is given, the better it is e.g contributions to oi-userland are
welcome.

>
> 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.
>
>
>
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