[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hipster distro contents confusion

[Hans J Albertsson]

Ok, clear.

Hans J. Albertsson
>From my Nexus 5

Den 27 sep. 2016 18:00 skrev "ken mays via openindiana-discuss" <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>:

> Hello,
> No. The official snapshot is the 2016.04 (i.e. BETA) release. The 2016.08
> snapshot is an ALPHA (experimental) release - not an official snapshot.
> Read carefully, there are no STABLE releases of OI-Hipster. These are all
> 'developer snapshots' - and only tested within a limited scope.
> oi_151a track was maintained in a somewhat STABLE manner (slow moving
> track).
> ~K
>
>
>     On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:03 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"?
>
> 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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