[OpenIndiana-discuss] switching from Ubuntu

[Jim Klimov]

On November 7, 2017 3:15:02 PM GMT+01:00, Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie at outstep.com> wrote:
>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 :)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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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