[OpenIndiana-discuss] How to get a usable console on OI?

[Reginald Beardsley]

I just took Hipster, I think 2017.10, but here's "uname -a", to single user mode.

SunOS Hipster 5.11 illumos-2727bb055f i86pc i386 i86pc

"ls /dev" was blisteringly quick. "/usr/bin/time ls /dev" reported 0.1 seconds.

System is a quad core HP Z400 at 2.9 GHz with I think 8 GB of DRAM. Monitor is 1600x1200. I'm afraid I am old and *very* tired of the continual churn of system commands, so I shall not provide any more data unless someone provides explicit syntax. Why sysinfo(1m) was eliminated is beyond me. The traditional mantra was ease of discovery. It is now apparently complexity to make the creators look "special".

The recent volume of traffic has been driving me nuts. When "What shell to use?" appeared I really began to despair. I shudder to think how many trees have been killed and electrons tortured on that topic. I have very low tolerance for people who don't do their homework and want others to do it for them.

I increasingly long for 4.1.1 when things still made sense. Now we have a half finished transition to God only knows what. I rather fear to the graveyard.

The vision of Unix I know has been replaced by an agglomeration of poorly thought out and even more poorly implemented "features". I fully appreciate why we are in this situation, but it breaks my heart. There was a day when I had xterms open on 6 different systems, AIX, SunOS, IRIX, CLIX, Ultrix and HP-UX and I could move easily among them and maintained a vast array of FOSS on all of them. And there were many days when the list of systems was quite different. But all of those are long gone.

Grumble,
Reg