[OpenIndiana-discuss] switching from Ubuntu

[Nikola M]

On 11/ 7/17 12:26 PM, openbabel wrote:
> 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

Just to add..
...and would also welcome posting answer to messages, below quotes :)


>
>
> 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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