[OpenIndiana-discuss] Parted on 2020.04 GUI LiveImage DVD: Huh???

[Judah Richardson]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:17 AM Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <
openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:

>  The number one rule of distributing software is test everything you can
> to be sure it actually works and don't ship things that are known not to
> work.
>
> I installed FreeBSD 12.2 without issues. But when I went to /usr/ports to
> build X11 it failed part way through the build because "xmlto" was missing
> and one of the many auto**** pieces was misconfigured. However, at least it
> was not using imake.
>
> As I have ordered the latest BSD book by McKusic et al I shall investigate
> fixing X11 after I read the book and compare FreeBSD to Solaris as
> documented in the 2nd ed of the Internals book.
>
> Even with Sun/Oracle behind it, Solaris could not and can not compete with
> Linux. The Linux market is large enough that the leading HW OEMs make
> certain that their HW is supported. That costs a lot of money in the x86
> world. Far more than anyone could afford other than the HW OEM. Neither *BSD

As far as x86-64 is concerned, FreeBSD has pretty good Intel, Mellanox, and
Chelsio support. In my experience the only deficiencies are pretty much
anything wireless (if you need 802.11ac+ or Bluetooth use a different OS)
and Core 3rd gen and older iGPUs (will work, but uses open source, less
performant GPU driver).

FreeBSD is also the basis of PlayStation and Nintendo OSes, but I'm not
sure how much code is upstreamed from the latter 2.

> nor Solaris/Illumos/OI are large enough markets to make it economical for
> the HW OEMs to support them.
>
> The best we can do is target older top tier HW

I daresay the existing OI + UEFI issues indicate that for all practical
purposes this is pretty much already the case.

from IBM and HP and leverage their Linux support to support Illumos/OI. A
> 24 core, 512 GB RAM HP Z820 can be had for less than I paid for my Ultra 20
> in 2006. It's a staggering piece of HW and is Oracle certified for Solaris
> with IIRC a caveat about the sound chip which is not very important on such
> a machine.
>
> Better to do some things well, than everything badly.
>
> Have Fun!
> Reg
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