[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

[Private openbabel]

I have suspected sometime that a rolling release would confuse potential 
users. Perhaps we should consider a named beta release soon under the 
appropriate celestrial name?

Robert


On 27/09/2016 20:05, Hans J Albertsson wrote:
> Ok, so I install the iso, check what is missing and get the rest as you
> show.
>
> This machine is just a tryout for me. Wanna see if I can get SunRays, with
> Firefox, thunderbird and libreoffice going and then a serviio dlna server
> using ffmpeg for transcoding.
> Most other server bits here are on FreeNAS boxes.
>
> I'm not seriously expecting hipster to be super stable, but I can't imagine
> you folks putting all this effort in unless your experience occasionally
> includes reasonable usefulness.
>
> Hans J. Albertsson
>  From my Nexus 5
>
> Den 27 sep. 2016 7:40 em skrev "cpforum" <cpforum at orange.fr>:
>
>>
>>> Message du 27/09/16 09:02
>>> De : "Hans J. Albertsson"
>>> A : openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
>>> Copie à :
>>> Objet : [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion
>>>
>>> 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"?
>> On the desktop hipster is a "no crash stable beta". But you have to add
>> some package to make it
>>
>>
>> Here is a script for that.
>>
>> =========
>> #!/bin/ksh
>>
>> #
>> # Compléments Gnome
>> #
>>
>> pkg install \
>> system/install/locale \
>> image/gnome-backgrounds \
>> gnome/theme/background/os-backgrounds-extra \
>> gnome/media/sound-recorder \
>> desktop/keepassx \
>> image/viewer/gthumb \
>> image/editor/inkscape \
>> image/webcam/cheese \
>> web/editor/bluefish \
>> editor/diagram/dia \
>> image/scanner/xsane \
>> image/editor/gimp
>>
>> #
>> # Multimédia
>> #
>>
>> pkg set-publisher \
>> -g http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster-emcubered hipster-encumbered
>>
>> pkg refresh --full
>> pkg install \
>> media/vlc \
>> gstreamer/plugin/bad \
>> gstreamer/plugin/ffmpeg \
>> gstreamer/plugin/ugly \
>> library/video/libdvdcss
>>
>> #
>> # Bureautique
>> #
>>
>> pkg set-publisher -g http://sfe.opencsw.org/localhostoih localhostoih
>> pkg install \
>> pkg://localhostoih/library/g++/icu \
>> pkg://localhostoih/system/library/g++/boost \
>> desktop/application/libreoffice4-desktop-int \
>> desktop/application/libreoffice4
>>
>> ===========
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> 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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