[OpenIndiana-discuss] switching from Ubuntu

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Greetings All,

I would like to add that if you have a particular interest in helping 
the desktop environment advance we would welcome your imput.

Robert Jones


On 07/11/2017 07:53, Nikola M wrote:
> On 11/ 7/17 01:34 AM, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
>> Greetings All,
>>
>> I have used many operating systems over the years and lately have been
>> using Windows (all flavors) as well as Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, Gentoo,
>> etc...) bu mostly have been using Ubuntu 16.04 as my desktop for some 
>> time
>> now.
>>
>> Currently, I am gearing up to do a couple of projects which have the
>> Illumos base which are in the SmartOS arena, but it made me start to 
>> wonder
>> if I should also consider loading up OpenIndiana Hipster as my 
>> desktop so
>> that I can become more familiar with it as it seems to have many
>> similarities as SmartOS and wanted to get the opinion of the OI 
>> community
>> as to what they thought about it as a day-to-day OS?
>>
>> Mostly just exploring the possibility of nuking Ubuntu in favor of
>> installing OI for a while to see how it runs.
>>
>> Any comments, experiences, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Firstly , Openindiana is the distribution name because /hipster 
> (lowercase) is not OS/distribution name, but a repository name.
> I welcome you to illumos distributions, Unix-derived family. (It is 
> truly derived from Unix and not just Unix-like)
>
> Openindiana is a server-oriented UK-hosted OS that have a desktop. OI 
> has 'snapshots' twice a year (not a releases per se, since they are 
> not supported to be updated as such like in Ubuntu) and in the 
> meantime there are contiuous updates of fresh and 'vanilla' illumos 
> updates and the effort of contributors in 'userland' source repository 
> to make it better, more bug free and add fundamental features, where 
> Alexander Pyhalov is standing out together with all other important 
> contributors.
>
> Having a MATE desktop, Firefox ESR and LibreOffice (from SFE 
> repository), Openindiana is enough for everyday use of internet 
> services and using Solaris zones (those might end up hosted in the 
> illumos based cloud), but it is sure that some device driver support 
> might lacking or trailing behind  a bit.
> You can also bootstrap Joyent SmartOS userland and use it in the 
> window, using pkgsrc packages, separately installed, in the terminal 
> emulator and have it together with OI desktop experience. There are 
> also Boot Envornments on top of ZFS that makes both testing and 
> production use more reliable and predictive experience etc.
>
> So you can count on frequent and inclusive experience, that would 
> demand of you to be more included in the development of the OI itself, 
> not only by posting bug reports or driver support requests, but it 
> could also allow you to be more directly involved (and more 
> appreciated) then in some other distributions you could. So it's both 
> exciting and fulfilling experience to use it and make it better.
> Don' take anything by the letter , be free to openly (and publicly!) 
> collaborate with others and everything you do will be important.
>
>
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