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

[Chris]

On 2021-01-24 19:54, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss wrote:
> 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.
On
% uname -a
SunOS OIDEV 5.11 illumos-f85f43ed9f i86pc i386 i86pc
% time ls -Cla /usr/include
0.013u 23.223s 0:23.23 100.0%

--Chris
> 
> 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 The vision of Unix I know has been replaced by an agglomeration of poorly 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

-- 
~10yrs a FreeBSD maintainer of ~160 ports
~40yrs of UNIX