[OpenIndiana-discuss] switching from Ubuntu

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Thanks All for the nice welcome and I look forward to testing out OI as
well as trying to contribute a bit along the way during the course of my
projects.

I actually, just tried to boot the OI (Hipster) live iso on an 64-bit AMD
test machine that I have been running Ubuntu 16.04 and although it does
boot up reasonably well, but I found that it does not recognize my network
cards "Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" and "Broadcom Limited
BCM43228 802.11 a/b/g/n" wireless. Actually, it seems to see them in the
device list, but it does not activate them so perhaps I need some drivers
if they are available.

Cheers,
Lonnie

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 :)
>
>
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>>
>> 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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