[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

[Hans J Albertsson]

Please NO!
Don't think I'm confused! I just want to know a couple more details about
how to use the isos!

The hipster rolling release seems a really great idea, and OpenIndiana was
always a beta or even alpha!

Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5

Den 28 sep. 2016 18:00 skrev "Private openbabel" <openbabel at gmail.com>:

> 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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